Word: herzog
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...Indians," says a character in I Werner Herzog's epic movie Fitz-carraldo, "believe that the waking world is a fantasy from which we escape into our real life - our dream life." Herzog should know: he was one of 35,000 dreamers at the 35th Cannes Film Festival. For 13 days on the cool but sunny Côte d'Azur, fantasies of art and avarice were spun with blithe disregard for events in the waking world outside. On the façade of the town's posh Carlton Hotel, an electronic ticker tape mixed bulletins from...
Where does that leave Cannes the movie festival? Still exciting after all these years. Fitzcarraldo, which stars Klaus Kinski as an Irish rubber baron who leaves his mistress, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a mystical trek through the Peruvian jungle that took four calamitous years out of Director Herzog's life and won him the best director prize. The official competition also boasted new films from Michelangelo Antonioni, Jerzy Sko-limowski and Jean-Luc Godard. Antonioni's Identification of a Woman is hypnotic and erotic, and it earned him the festival's special 35th-anniversary citation...
Managers' imaginations often come into play during streaks. Throughout the St. Louis Cardinals' eleven-game winning streak, Whitey Herzog's key strategy was to have Reserve Outfielder Dane lorg deliver the lineup card to the umpires. Meanwhile, Earl Weaver was tossing the Oriole clubhouse looking for his own lucky messenger to end the drought. ("Has Elrod Hendricks been out there yet?" Weaver moaned last week...
...Portillo's finance secretary, David Ibarra Muñoz, last month orchestrated a 40% devaluation of the Mexican peso. Unfortunately, the action has done little yet to ease any of the economy's underlying woes. Last week Muňoz resigned, to be replaced by Jesus Silva Herzog, a Yale-educated economist and close friend of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, López Portillo's hand-picked presidential successor when nationwide elections are held in July...
...reader can never feel so urgent a threat from the debris of the city as Corde lies in the logorrhea of the work, idea-rrhea, maybe, would be a better word. Bellow has long made the wild stringing of ideas a calling card of his, utilizing it next in Herzog. The average Bellow chapter contains mention of more great thinkers than there are on the Modern Library publication list, and usually he pulls it off. But in The Dean's December one senses the so-called "novel of ideas" working back-on itself, turning horror into an abstraction rather than...