Word: panza
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American spirit, to New York City and the world. In the late '50s and '60s, with his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, he discovered Rauschenberg, Johns, Stella, Lichtenstein, Bontecou and others. I had joined Bellamy's Green Gallery, but Leo brought visitors to my loft, including the famous collector Count Panza di Biumo. In 1964 I joined the Castelli Gallery and had my first show with Leo in 1965, with my 86-ft. painting F-111. Leo placed young artists' work in good collections and in museums throughout the world, even if he didn't make a big commission. He favored...
...women in their lives, Jules and Jim spend most of their time together, giving their friendship homoerotic overtones. Jim, an author, writes an autobiographical novel based on his friendship with Jules, and reads a passage to Jules which says, "They came to be known as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and soon, unknown to them, their behavior led to, much rumor and speculation among the people in their neighborhood...
...frenzied, festival atmosphere of the seaport city of Barcelona sets the stage. After reading a few too many legends of gallant knights and fair maidens, the eccentric old Don Quixote wanders here with his sidekick Sancho Panza. As he arrives on the scene clad in makeshift armor, he discovers his fictitious Lady Dulcinea in the personage of the lovely peasant girl Kitri and vows to rescue her from peril. Kitri is indeed in trouble, for her father Lorenzo has tried to force her to marry the rich aristocratic fop Gamache over her sweet-heart, the young barber Basilio. Pursued...
...drama of a mediocrity, a sort of imposter, presuming to take over. Or so it always seems. The vice presidency almost by definition enforces an expectation of the second rate: the man is inherently a loser (he was not the President, after all) or at best a Sancho Panza. In the case of Andrew Johnson following Abraham Lincoln, the fear of mediocrity was fulfilled. When Franklin Roosevelt died, a god of the era gave place, it seemed, to democracy's least common denominator, a barking, weightless little haberdasher from Independence...
Worst of all is Quaid, who plays a Sancho Panza to Murray's Don Quixote. Quaid seems to have forgotten that successful slapstick requires a great deal more than simply acting clumsy, and the audience soon grows as weary of his character's stumbling, bumbling and foot-dragging as Grimm and Phyllis do. By the last third of the movie, he has been reduced to a wheezing, red-faced wreck, and one wishes that his accomplices would simply turn him in to the cops and get on with their escape...