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...anyway and say a few more "God willing's" than usual. The men--and maybe the rich Senora from the nearby ranch--stand about in a circle and discuss the work on the road or the unlikely prospect of raising sufficient funds to pipe water into the town. Don Leonardo is their selected leader--with his tall stature, good looks, blue eyes, eloquence, and strong stance...
...find Don Leonardo finishing his new house. He covers the adobe with a mixture of sand and lime, making the walls white and smooth. The doors and windows are trimmed in bright blue. You ask him, as president of the town, what he thinks of the Mexican government. Smiling, he shrugs his shoulders. "Well, Senorita, Echeverria--he is not a bad man; but he does nothing for the campesino. The rich men have money and they pay him and, well--so he can afford to do nothing...
Those few Italians within earshot were somewhat nonplused when an American Indian named Lucky Eagle stepped off a Boeing 747 at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Intercontinental Airport and declared: "In the name of the Indian people, I claim the right of discovery and take possession of this land...
...Music expresses love and parting simultaneously," says Jeremy's shrewd, strict teacher (Leonardo Cimino). "It expresses life. Play it that way." Jeremy meets Susan (Glynnis O'Connor) at school one day, talks with her about the busy loneliness that seems to trouble them both, and falls in love with...
...written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman's intellect and methods are favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman is a home-grown successor to Marcel Duchamp, whose every pun and jeu d'esprit, no matter how limp, must be given the solemn study once...