Word: piet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post-Christian mentality, but its only emotional vitality derives from Christian symbolism and experience. When Julian is shot, Miss Alice is wearing a dress and cape of blue, a color associated with Mary, the mother of Christ, and she cradles Julian in her arms in the agony of a Pietá. Other invocations of Christianity include the fiery end of the world, Christ's years in the wilderness, his marriage to his church, and his Crucifixion. But the mockery in all this is that Albee regards Christ crucified, or any martyr, as having chosen...
...chief of Iraq's security forces, who was conspiring against his government. The vanished girl turns out to be his French mistress, Lucia Bernardi. There is a missing suitcase full of documents. There are oil interests. And when the police of three countries are stumped, there is even Piet Maas, a brilliant, disillusioned young Dutch journalist who is told by his boss to Find That Girl! Cut! Next scene: the sunny Riviera...
...proof suspense-sometimes with the smoky overtones of his early A Coffin for Dimitrios, sometimes with the dry, fruity tang of last year's The Light of Day (bubblingly filmed by Jules Dassin as Topkapi). This time, unfortunately, somebody's been tinkering with the formula. As Piet and Lucia go through their appointed rounds of deception and huff-and-puff chase, the reader begins to realize that too many of the motivations are phony, too much of the real action takes place offscreen, while too much of the onscreen talk comes out with a kind of freshly translated...
VATICAN. The Pietāa, bathed in blue light, is a major attraction, though somewhat diminished by the cold setting and a crowd-hustling moving sidewalk. Cognoscenti who have seen Michelangelo's masterpiece glowing like old ivory in the natural light of St. Peter's might be wise to remember it that...
...flown from Tunis, drink Israeli orange soda, savor an Egyptian beancake sandwich, try a taco from Colombia, drink Greek wine, and sober up at an Indian tea bar. You can inspect benni seeds from Sierra Leone, pitchforks from Taiwan, and yourself on RCA color TV. You can see the Pietà of Michelangelo in the Vatican pavilion...