Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More Shocks. When the two-day round of talks ended, U.S.-Japanese relations had recovered at least some of their old cordiality. Standing with Sato under a towering pine in the garden of Casa Pacifica, the President said that they had just finished the "most comprehensive discussion which has ever taken place between the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the U.S." Sato concurred. The talks, he declared, "contributed to strengthening the unshakable relationship of mutual trust and inter dependence between the people of the U.S. and Japan." Less enthusiastic, a Sato subordinate remarked: "I guess we will...
...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS...
...Sica tried to adapt himself to the commercial film. The results were at best fluff (Marriage-Italian Style), more frequently flubs (Woman Times Seven, The Condemned of Altond). Now, after more than a decade of indifferent and impersonal work, De Sica has returned to form. If The Garden of the Finzi-Continis does not fully rival The Bicycle Thief and Umberto D., it is good enough to stand comparison with them...
...Garden is a quietly touching, achingly human requiem for the passing of a social order-one of those rare films that can make effective personal drama out of political chaos. Expertly adapted from Giorgio Bassani's autobiographical novel, the story deals with two Jewish families in Ferrara in the late 1930s, when Fascism was cresting all over Italy. The Finzi-Continis are patricians who live in a spacious estate behind high walls, heedless and ever so slightly disdainful of the tide outside that will inexorably engulf them. The other family, never named, is aware of the political upheaval...
Recording all of this would seem to be just about impossible given the technical difficulties of capturing the sound of so many voices and instruments, in Madison Square Garden no less. Yet, armed with over forty microphones, the technical crew was able to pull it off, and as a consequence the album is unquestionably the quintessence of live recording. The album is structured so that it follows the chronological progression of the concert (although the performances are actually the best of two different concerts), thus giving the album a you-are-there effect...