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ALEKSANDR Solzhenitsyn has the type of personality that stands out in any crowd. Even seated among his fellow honorary degree recipients at Commencement last June, as illustrious a group of political figures, authors and scientists as you're likely to find...there seems to be something remarkable about the man...
Over the years Luciani has written many whimsical "letters" to past personalities, real and fictional, which were collected in a 1976 book put out by the St. Anthony Messenger Press called Illustrissimi (The Most Illustrious Ones).
Surely, replied the illustrious British astronomer and physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, nature would forbid such a reductio ad absurdum as a star so compressed that sit does not shine. But two other astronomers, Mount Wilson Observatory's Fritz Zwicky and Walter Baade, were more intellectually adventurous.
ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES is in many ways typical of contemporary Italian cinema. Rosi uses the documentary style, which places an exaggerated emphasis on certain events in the plot to create a more realistic impression, and uses the common theme of the overgrown police state seen in many recent films. He also...
Illustrious Corpses is a somewhat flawed film, in that its labyrinthine plot can hopelessly confuse even the most attentive viewer. This reviewer had to see it twice just to understand what was going on, and I'm still not sure about some parts. But it is a must see for...