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...militant cinema involved ideologically and politically in and for the revolution," running 4 hours and 20 minutes on the concrete political and economic situation in Argentina, is entering its second week at the Orson Welles Cinema in an extended run. Directed by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, La Hora de los Hornos is the first film of its kind, made with and for underground militant groups-students, workers, guerrillas-in a country where the liberation of revolutionary masses from a repressive military regime is in the making. Part I, Neo-colonialism and Violence (95 minutes) runs Wednesdays through Saturdays; Parts...
Many observers are most concerned about the sadistic component of much current pornography. "No civilization, with the possible exception of the Aztec, could produce an art whose sexual ferocity would rival that of the West," according to Mexican Poet-Diplomat Octavio Paz. In Western pornography, "death spurs pleasures and rules over life. From Sade to the Story of O, eroticism is a funeral chant or a sinister pantomime." Reading about sadism can have a cumulative effect, according to Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. Der Stunner, a Hitlerite journal that mixed anti-Semitism and sex, contributed to the general atmosphere that...
...Octavio Paz, a Mexican poet who resigned as ambassador to India in 1968 to protest the killing of Mexican students by government troops, will be next year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard...
...Right now you do not have a more representative voice for Latin America -representative in many different ways-than Octavio Paz." Marichal said. "He's not only an ambassador, but a critic of himself and the world. He has been a very brave...
...recordings almost everywhere of actors and poets such as Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas reading famous plays and poems, but the French have gone a soupcon further. Issued in Paris this fall is France's first "talking book," a cassette volume of 22 works of the Mexican poet Octavio Paz (in Spanish, with a French translation included). Also included are elaborately illustrated pages of handmade paper, on which the verses themselves are printed. Only 301 copies were produced; each retails...