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...Senate, was caught as having described himself as a Viet Nam-era draftee and Army lieutenant. Mr. Caputo was neither. Yet when confronted with the fact that he had falsified his credentials in Who's Who in American Politics, he rose to the occasion as Michelangelo once rose to the ceiling: "To the extent that I or somebody on my staff was less than careful, we made a mistake." Thus in a single sentence he was able to identify the lie as carelessness and to imply that if anyone at all was responsible (a question he opens...
...trapped. "God put the faces in the wood. Don't bring me a piece of wood and ask me to carve something out of it. 'Cause I won't. Don't tell me what you want, it might not be there, you understand?" Michelangelo took several sonnets to say the same thing...
...into energy under extreme stress. He did not approach this by some corny process of finding painted "equivalents" for Einstein, like so many pseudo artists of his time. Rather, he looked back into tradition, past his teacher Thomas Hart Benton, to El Greco and, with somewhat less understanding, to Michelangelo...
...Passenger (1975) d. Michelangelo Antionini...
...Michelangelo Antonioni is a restless eminence. For more than 40 years he has been testing the limits of film narrative-as a young critic and documentarist, as a screenwriter in Italy's neorealist cinema, as the director of such parables of alienation as L'Avventura (1960) and Eclipse (1962). And while he expanded the viewer's understanding of the way stories can be told, he helped change the way the world is seen on film. In Red Desert (1964), he reflected the industrial and emotional decay of modern Ravenna in skies streaked like a sulfurous rainbow...