Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fellini unifies these disjointed variations on a chamber music theme with pure showmanship, with extravagant, baroque, visually stupendous theatrics. The curtain rises, as it were, on a magnificent Venetian mosque on the Grand Canal. As fireworks explode above the Rialto and gondolas pass below, the huge head of a woman is hoisted out of the canal. Suddenly--a rope breaks, poles fall, masquers scream and the vast shape sinks back under the dark green water. The camera focuses in on one costumed mannequin, dressed in white, with his hair pulled back off an amazingly high forehead. The stage...
...Homer, and the aged Casanova dreams surrounded by books in a northern court. His dreams are the stuff his myth has been made out of: Venetian splendour, glittering women coming towards him, or running coquettishly away. But in his dream he dances with only one lady, on a frozen Grand Canal under the Rialto; the porcelain doll and Casanova revolve to the music of his golden cock, in a world made only of illusion, creations of self-conscious...
...later helped Carter as governor, will direct relations between the White House and the Cabinet. Campaign Treasurer Robert Lipshutz will take over as White House counsel. A senior partner in a successful Atlanta law firm, Lipshutz has advised Carter for almost ten years and, at 55, is the grand old man of the staff...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's prewar policies. He gained further acclaim under Winston Churchill-serving, in effect, as Britain's wartime chief of staff, Churchill's alter ego and, as Oxford Historian Michael Howard puts it, "the loyal adjutant who skillfully executed his master's grand strategy." Seldom was a man so groomed for his country's highest political office. Yet when it came Eden's turn to serve as Prime Minister, he had perhaps outlived both his time and his vision: he disastrously mishandled the Suez crisis and thus sped the dissolution...
...even a reader who cannot identify with the author's rude stereotypes is likely to feel the urgent excitement of these books. Author Rogers possesses theatrical flair and truly grand vulgarity. Her books are built, like action movies, from a rapid series of short, vivid scenes. Readers who do keep reading have no time to pause and reflect on the preposterousness of what is happening. Seized by the throat, the poor geese are force-fed events events events as the action mounts to a terrific climax in which lust sprouts little pink wings and Beauty fetters Beast with...