Word: michelangelo
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...nature. Their significance is never that of the incidental but of some universal law." It was this quality that enabled Marées to span the ages and to search out eternal truths that lie beyond outward appearances. As he put it when writing about the drawings of Michelangelo: "Not the completeness of the image but the completeness of the understanding makes a thing a work...
...council fathers from the U.S., the most prosperous of the prelates, have the pick of available rooms. New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman will stay, as he always does, at the Grand; 80 other bishops will stay at the Michelangelo, a sleek, air-conditioned hostelry within walking distance of St. Peter's. *A heretic takes exception to doctrine, a schismatic to discipline...
...centuries the arrival of European influence. This realization gave the show different meanings to white and black viewers. To one white viewer, writing in the Rhodesia Herald, the show offered "nothing but crudity, primitiveness and savagery . . . we are used to a culture that produces artists of the calibre of Michelangelo, sculptors of the calibre of Rodin." But a serious and elegant Negro was led to wonder "whether the local Europeans were able to understand anything of all this...
...Notte is, as they say, an Antonioni. Which means that Michelangelo Antonioni wrote and directed it. What makes La Notte better than other movies is hard to say. First of all, it has a continuity through narrative, unifying it from the opening shots of modern Milan to the closing embrace in a sand trap. At points, such as when one hears, then sees a helicopter whoosh past the hospital, it parodies La Dolce Vita, a film lacking tightness and cohesiveness, though also attempting to portray the senselessness of modern Italy. The essential difference in approach between Fellini and Antonioni...
...Idabel, Okla. He dresses from head to foot in white and sports a white flower in his buttonhole. His portrait of an English lord is done in 25 scattered panels, so that "each of his lordship's grandchildren can have a piece." Iris Clert calls Stevenson "a new Michelangelo. I adore...