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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of Europe's leading film makers: in 1970 Bertolucci gave her a starring role in The Conformist and later conceived Last Tango in Paris with her hi mind (she was unavailable). The late Vittorio De Sica, equally enchanted, cast her as the doomed heiress in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and she has also appeared in a film by Luchino Visconti. Sanda lives on the edge of the forest at Rambouillet outside Paris with her son by Actor Christian Marquand, her current lover, Painter Frédérique Pardo, and Pardo's mother. When...
Vast Range. Turner's was not a "normal" life but a long exertion. He had little art training. His father, a Covent Garden wigmaker, exploited him, egging him on to turn out hundreds of bread-and-butter illustrations. His mother died mad, which seems to have inhibited Turner from trusting women; for sex he went to dockside whores, and for security and approval he turned to an institution, the Royal Academy. Nearly all his emotional energies were displaced into his work. Its sheer volume was astounding: the British Museum alone has 19,000 watercolors, color notes and travel drawings...
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Grateful Servants. In the Atlanta area, the rich are dispensing with full-time yardmen and entrusting the manicuring of lawns to commercial garden-maintenance firms; several families have put then" chauffeurs behind the lawnmower in nondriving hours. These days many servants are grateful to have any job. A wealthy Los Angeles contractor leaves his Rolls in the garage and the chauffeur in the garden when he visits a potential customer; instead, he drives his wife's beat-up Volkswagen to convey an impression of cost-consciousness...
Next day, apparently in retaliation, two gunmen went to the home of the president of the West Berlin Supreme Court, Gunter von Drenkmann, and shot him down when he opened the door. A bomb went off (harmlessly) in the garden of another judge in Hamburg, and eight firebombings occurred in Gottingen. So far, there have been no arrests...