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...alienation as L'Avventura (1960) and Eclipse (1962). And while he expanded the viewer's understanding of the way stories can be told, he helped change the way the world is seen on film. In Red Desert (1964), he reflected the industrial and emotional decay of modern Ravenna in skies streaked like a sulfurous rainbow. In Blow-Up (1966), he painted London phone booths a deeper red, turned the grass a brighter green, to play against his protagonist's Day-Glo life. Now Antonioni has plumbed the resources of the new video technology and emerged with...
...Glen Young, a farmer in Ravenna, Ohio, after a prolonged hassle, got Western Reserve Mutual to pay $2,100 for his pickup truck, which ran into a ditch and was totally wrecked last October. A few days later, says Young, "I was told that my coverage would be terminated in 15 days, not only on the policies on my three vehicles, but also on the farm policy I have had for eleven years with Western Reserve's sister company, Lightning Rod Mutual." Young protested to his Senator, Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, and his coverage was extended after an aide...
...horseback to match the Marcus Aurelius on the Roman capitol. From Constantine onward, the Christian emperors preferred flat hieratical art, especially mosaics, whose multiplicity of shapes suited a power based on ceremony. The "otherworldliness" of those gold-and purple-sheathed Byzantine nobles, glittering in mosaic on the walls of Ravenna and points east, is propaganda; there could have been no better medium than mosaic for impressing on subjects' minds the idea of a continuity between the courts of heaven and those of earth. The rigid bodies and fixed, wide-eyed stares, we now feel, are pure spirit...
...bodily harm when they opened fire on student demonstrators, accompanied the jurors to Kent State last week. None seemed particularly happy to be back on campus. "It certainly brought back a lot of unpleasant memories," said Barry Morris, 30, of Kent. Added another defendant, James D. McGee, 28, of Ravenna, Ohio: "I'll be glad to leave here...
Aloof Abstraction. The material is mostly drawn from Italian museums and churches, and it has its gaps, caused by the inimitable pigheadedness of Italian art bureaucracy. Thus Ravenna would not lend the most important single Byzantine object in Italy, the 6th century ivory throne of Maximian. All the same, one could not wish for a better introduction to Byzantine influence in Italy-not only the works made in Constantinople and then imported or looted, but also the ones made by the artists of the Adriatic coast. All the canons of Byzantine style are there: the liturgical stateliness of form...