Word: franche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alcina Franch, professor of American anthropology at the University of Madrid, combines scholarship and a curatorial eye to produce Pre-Columbian Art (Abrams; 614 pages; $125). Franch provides a systematic survey of the once powerful civilizations that flourished in Mexico and Central and South America before 16th century Spaniards spread destruction in their frenzy for New World gold. Pre-Columbian art, the author notes, drew on a staggering variety of mythologic forms. Similarities between the designs of ancient America and Asia are not coincidental; prehistoric migrations apparently carried the seeds of cultures halfway round the world. In addition to illustrations...
When the fully grown Napoleon reappears as a young army officer at the Club des Cordeliers, a center of radical activity during the early days of the Franch Revolution it is obvious he has begun to unfold internally. Bonaparte, played by Albert Dieudonne, exudes power as he slowly hitches up his shoulders. When he stares into the camera he peers out of dark eyes set so deeply they look like smouldering fires at the ends of two parallel tunnels. Though runty and still obscure, as Gance reiterates over and over, this is the Napoleon of the Eroica...