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Denver v. Watson was an actual case, filmed with all the participants' consent last March in Colorado (the only state besides Texas that allows cameras in the courtroom). It was "a classic of the ritual drama of American justice," says Producer Robert Fresco. The trial involved a Black Panther arrested for "resisting and interfering with a police officer." The testimony, as might be expected, was contradictory. The defense lawyer claimed that the white cop was really at fault for "harassing" a black by bellowing out "White Power!" and "We need to kill this black bastard!" The prosecution argued that...
...fresco lady...
...also shot Toby Dammit) used tons of smoke, incense and cement dust to reproduce a sense of murky antiquity. Yet there is little doubt that, in scenes like the death of a patrician couple who prefer suicide to inevitable political assassination, Fellini is attempting to render this vast fresco as a giant metaphor for the 1960s. "If Petronius' work is a full-blooded description of the atmosphere of those times," Fellini admits, "the film that I adapted from it is a panorama, an allegorical satire of our present-day world. It is a science-fiction film projected into...
...talks about meeting Hammarskjold, about buying him a seashore cottage near his own, about the books the Secretary General read and his taste in art. He talks about the times they spent together, in Hagestad, the seaside retreat; in Hammarskjold's Manhattan flat while Beskow was painting the fresco in the Meditation Room of the U.N.; at Brewster, the small estate Hammarskjold had rented in upstate New York...
...never ponderous or solemn," Tange says, "but always as they should be: great fun to watch." Many others obviously agree. For their pavilion at the world's fair, Japan's gas companies have commissioned Shingu to create indoor fountains that will frame a huge new ceramic fresco by Joan...