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Dirge. Heavy street fighting turned Elisabethville into a shell-pocked inferno, and there was serious doubt that the U.N. could avoid being overwhelmed. Tshombe, after 'a day of hiding, turned up in his heavily guarded residence to direct the battle. Said he: "I am prepared to die fighting in my own home." The tree-lined avenues were littered with the shells of Jeeps and the bodies of men; water and power were cut off, food was running low (and food markets closed), and there was growing danger of disease. Few people ventured out of doors, and many slept...
...immigrant Italian parents; his late father was a cook. Bored in high school with "incomprehensibly incompetent" language teachers, Vaio on his own learned Latin. Greek and French, and enough Chinese to translate poetry. He also knocked out his own English version of the first third of Dante's Inferno. At Columbia, where Vaio studied German and Japanese for variety, famed Classicist Gilbert Highet called his translations "beautiful-extraordinarily lively and poetic," gave him an A+ ("something I've done only once before"). After two or three years as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford's University College, Vaio...
...exits are either barricaded or booby-trapped. A rumor of gas causes mass hysteria. A simple cough is like a thunderbolt that brings on a rain of German grenades. A classical pianist plays a melancholy tune on his sweet-potato pipe and quotes Dante's Inferno as his mind ebbs away "in the lake's foul bottom, plunged in dung"-a grim elegy that unites all their fates. A sentient lover (Tadeusz Janczar) pretends "we're walking in a dark and fragrant wood," but his blonde, tough-minded mistress (Teresa Izewska) shatters the illusion tersely...
...hands; an adjoining figure is riven from neck to thigh; a third figure turns slowly into a serpent. These, along with similar drawings on display this week at the University of Southern California, are the sketches for a series of paintings Lebrun is making to illustrate Dante's Inferno-the latest work of an artist whose obsession is the suffering of mankind...
Like Dante's Inferno, Fellini's apocalypse is infested with contemporary incidents and actual people. Every episode in the film was suggested by a Roman scandal of the last ten years, and Fellini has somehow persuaded hundreds of Roman whores, faggots, screen queens, pressagents, newsmen, artists, lawyers, and even some asthenic aristocrats, to play themselves-or revolting caricatures of themselves. These sensations have made La Dolce Vita, in one season, one of the most profitable pictures ever produced (world gross to date: $20 million). Released now in the U.S. for ten-a-week, reserved-seat showings at special...