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...Molten Eroticism. For the last several years, it has been unfair to judge Bergman on an individual film. To state that The Shame is not quite up to The Seventh Seal is like saying that Blake's The Mental Traveller is not equivalent to Songs of Experience. What matters is the body of his work-comprising 29 films-which now amounts to a great literature of heroic despair...
...have been with him for over a decade. What the Moscow Art Theater was to Stanislavsky, these performers are to Bergman-ensemble members who function like fingers on a hand. Liv Ullman, newest member of the troupe, is, astonishingly, the best, portraying a whole range of feminine response, from molten eroticism to glacial hate. At the end of his life, Freud wrote: "The great question, which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'" Ullman supplies no answer, but no other actress could...
Looking rather like a visitor to Dante's Inferno, Pope Paul VI last week stood before a blazing blast furnace and watched as sputtering molten iron ore was poured into ingots. The Pope was visiting the Italsider steel plant in the Southern Italian town of Taranto, where, true to a promise he had made last month, he celebrated Christmas Eve Mass for 7,000 steelworkers and their families. In his sermon, delivered from an altar made of rolled steel slabs, Paul deplored the "separation and lack of understanding" that divides the worlds of labor and religion. "It almost seems...
...modified the lost-wax casting technique to cast directly from styrofoam, and even egg cartons, to bronze. (In lost-wax casting, one puts a refracting material like plaster around a wax shape one wants to reproduce, melts out the wax once the plaster hardens and then pours in molten metal...
...addition to matters of art, Bellow focuses his highly trained and intensely moral intelligence on questions of public responsibility and the possibilities of democracy. The force that his work exerts, however, comes not from political ideology, psychology or poetics, but from a resilient curiosity that encloses a molten core of doubt. What is man? How can he best manage his intellect and instincts? Those are the questions that spur Bellow's fictional quests. He finds no satisfying answers, but his special genius for characterization has progressively narrowed the distance between man's definition of himself and what...