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...Great Refractor during the last 15 years, during which the Tower, the dome and the telescope itself have decayed rapidly. Wolbach, distressed, would like to restore the Tower from the bottom up. "This room, the rotunda at the base here, has potential," he says, walking around the granite pier that supports the Refractor. Brilliant murals signed "Sergei Gaposhkin, 1957" line the walls. Wolbach frowns at them. "A Russian individual by the name of Sergei Gaposhkin--Dr. Gaposhkin--was given liberties, here. He, ahem, found the ultraviolet paint, as you see, and then he--painted." Wolbach comes down with emphasis...
...story has been reset on a West Coast amusement pier in order to accommodate the American accents of the star and his supporting players. Lemmon, who is nothing if not an earnest actor, works hard to be a total heel, destroying wife, children and finally his father (a beloved former star hauled out of retirement to save his son's awful act), not because he has any ambition left, but because the stage, however tacky it is, is the only arena in which he dares hope for survival. But the best Lemmon can manage in the role...
...When I saw him I wished I was a journalist. To be able to describe the emotion I felt seeing Pier Paolo Pasolini dead, on the ground, at that hour, in that place, and in that sickeningly mutilated state...
...rescue squad mopped up the remains of Pier Paolo Pasolini, 52 years old, poet, filmmaker, and social agitator, from the ruts of the dirt road in the early hours of Sunday, November 2nd. By that afternoon, all Rome knew that one of her most famous artists-in-residence had been found mangled in the midst of the slums of Ostia, a Roman suburb, on a strip of earth between huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita...
...Pier Paolo Pasolini was, then, a political phony, a mediocre poet, an opportunist filmmaker capitalizing on the Roman desire for circuses with lots of blood and sex, and if his death was such a senseless piece of violence--why all the fuss? Was the shock expressed by all Italy, and especially Rome, merely political propaganda of the PCI, melodramatics of the intellectual elite, and bloodthirsty scan-dalmongering on the part of the greater public? Of course all this contributed to the clamor, but there was something else behind the strong reaction of the students who marched through Rome in mourning...