Word: ne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small and simple thing, this last film by the late Vittorio De Sica. Clara (Florinda Bolkan) is a poor, feverishly depressed and angry woman, the sole support of a numerous, ne'er-do-well family. One day she collapses in the heat and clamor of the factory, where she works at the hardest but best-paying job. The doctor at the clinic to which she reluctantly reports diagnoses her fever as something more than a metaphor; it is a symptom of tuberculosis. Over the objections of husband and in-laws, she goes to the state-supported sanatorium...
...Chabrol's self-appointed mission to heighten our awareness" of these struggles by presenting them in an admittedly exaggerated, stylized manner, a manner that deliberately jars against his utterly realistic mise-en-scéne. There are moments in his movies in which be lief in what one is seeing threatens to dissolve into laughter, but there are many more in which we are shocked into a new awareness that beneath the surface of ordinary-looking lives, high dramas of genuine moral dimensions are being played...
...admire? Not always. Can we remain unmoved? Scarcely ever." The 19th century critic Eugène Fromentin's remark is still true of most reactions to Sir Peter Paul Rubens, the unrivaled master of 17th century Baroque painting. The austerities of modern art have taught us to feel queasy in the presence of his immense worldliness, Shakespearean erudition and, above all, his imagery: those nudes, pink bombé-fronted wardrobes of flesh; those heroes and captains and kings, displaying their vigor and assurance like baroque cock-birds of paradise; the fluster of rich fabrics and cloud, the lions...
Burma is expected to come under increasing pressure from Communist guerrillas exploiting the economic and political troubles of the Ne Win regime. The 10,000 insurgents, active in the opium-rich area bordering China, Laos and Thailand, are capable of launching a major campaign against Rangoon's forces...
...versions, both by virtuoso conductors and virtuoso orchestras, that go to the top of the list. To choose between them is difficult. Davis' elegant approach is underlined, and undermined, by Philips' lusciously veiled, soft-edged acoustics-and by a splitting of the slow third movement (Scène aux champs) between sides. London gets the movement all on one side and still manages to provide stunningly robust sound that is ideal for the now diabolical, now serene, always aptconjury of Solti, the winner...