Word: frescoing
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...hearing things. That early Christian fresco chapel at the MFA has a choir recording hidden in in a closet somewhere that starts and stops playing on a schedule only it understands...
...into the past or future. There are no fixed boundaries here, just as there is no firm central character. A young man called Titta appears frequently and serves as a kind of unifying autobiographical surrogate for the director. But Amarcord is not about him really, any more than a fresco is about any one person or object...
Such figures as the majestic green-feathered angel and the rigid Madonna on the lunette fresco from Sant'Angelo in Formis (see color overleaf) are flesh-made-geometry. Even when a mosaicist tried to be more "naturalistic," as the Venetian artist who executed a Head of an Apostle in Rome around 1218 seems to have done, the medium itself-thousands of glass cubes like colored teeth-automatically formalized the work...
...Fresco Feeling. Though it is a small fair by New York or Montreal standards, Spokane's Expo has a number of imaginatively designed pavilions. The $11.5 million U.S. pavilion dominates the site. Its theme: "Earth does not be long to man; man belongs to the earth." Umbrellaed by a translucent vinyl canopy that would cover nearly two football fields but does not touch the ground, the pavilion inside has an al fresco feeling and a cinema with the largest screen in the world (nine stories wide, six stories high). It features a film on U.S. ecology that opens with...
...Springsteen's fresco of muscle and dope is not the revelling in machismo that it might be (i.e. J. Geils), although clearly anybody who has proclaimed in song that "I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra" is to be watched closely. But even when a chorus of women sing "Those romantic young boys, all they ever want to do is fight," it conveys a soft ironic criticism which runs through the whole album, up to the point where Springsteen tells a girl friend "you oughtta quit this scene...