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...Italian Dominican Friar Thomas Aquinas entered a chapel in Naples to say Mass before beginning a day of lecturing and writing. During the Mass, something profound happened to him: some kind of physical or nervous breakdown, perhaps accompanied by an overpowering mystical vision. Afterward, he ceased dictating his theological masterwork, the Summa Theologiae. "All that I have written," he explained to concerned friends, "seems to me like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me." He never wrote another line. Three months later-700 years ago last month-he died in a monastery...
...though, let anything that's been said so far keep you from seeing the movie. Hollywood, after all, never gave you more at the movies. And compared to A Man and a Woman, Happy New Year is a masterwork. It's also hogwash. So go lose yourself in it, just don't take it for real. Because it's only another kiss kiss bang bang movie...
...letters that he received from ex-prisoners and interviews that he conducted with 227 survivors of slave-labor camps. Last week, as the Russian text appeared in Paris, and the New York Times began syndicating a 10,000-word excerpt, Gulag struck its early readers as both a literary masterwork and an unparalleled indictment of the Soviet regime...
...this was preamble to his immense glass-and-metal masterwork The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. This rich, elusive composition is a bulwark against interpretation; it contains satires and celebrations of mechanics, Christian mysticism and sexual fantasy−including some of Duchamp's cherished obsessions, a "male" chocolate grinder and a mechanical bride with a reservoir of "love gasoline." The Bride is no facile construction, as Duchamp makes clear in detailed annotations reminiscent of Da Vinci's code notebooks. The artist worked on his construction for eight years, then abandoned his Bride...
...third time the American Shakespeare Theatre has essayed this masterwork. In 1961 Pat Hingle was woefully miscast in the title role. Six years ago John Colicos was an impressive Macbeth, but poorly supported. For me the current go-around, staged by the AST's artistic director, Michael Kahn, proved frustrating...