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...meticulously wrought and highly atmospheric films; of a heart attack while suffering from influenza; in Rome. An early neorealist, along with Vittorio de Sica and Michelangelo Antonioni, Visconti used Sicilian villagers instead of actors in La Terra Trema (1947), the drama of a poor fisherman's family. In Rocco and His Brothers (1960), he described the brutalizing of a farm family moving north to Milan. Visconti's later works tended toward operatic melodrama (The Damned) or slick, vacant, surface beauty (Death in Venice). Conversation Piece, badly received at the New York Film Festival last fall, told the seemingly...
...Rocco Fiorentino. Christ and the Angels, at the MFA. Quintessential mannerism...
THREE FOR THE ROAD (CBS, Sunday, 7 p.m. E.D.T.) features a couple of kids whose roving photographer father (Alec Rocco) allows them to tag along. Schools and other forms of tedium are, of course, as imperceptible as The Invisible Man. The first episode got them involved with hang gliders, which, unlike most drama-show subjects, are actually photogenic. It also offered some information on how those exotic contraptions work. The data were more interesting than any of the overexposed cop-lawyer-doctor procedures observable this season...
...will have far-reaching consequences. It will help determine if man can live and work in space for the extended periods of time necessary to make round trips to the other planets or moons. "On Apollo we were like Christopher Columbus going into the unknown," says former Apollo Director Rocco Petrone. "With Skylab, we are more like the Pilgrims trying to settle the New World...
...fitting finish to what the director of the Apollo program, Rocco Petrone, called "the most perfect mission," and to America's remarkably successful manned assault on the moon. Between the December 1968 mission of Apollo 8 and the final flight of Apollo 17, a dozen U.S. astronauts had walked on the lunar surface and-as President Nixon noted last week-"of 24 men sent to circle the moon or to stand upon it...24 men returned to earth alive and well." Said Christopher Kraft, director of Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center: "Apollo was the greatest engineering feat...