Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A subway passing ancient Roman ruins, a hippie wedding on an abandoned movie set, sinister characters at the Colosseum at night seem standard elements for a Federico Fellini movie. This time, though, it's "Fellini: A Director's Notebook," the maestro's first attempt at TV. Fellini not only directs but is the subject, aided by his actress-wife Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni...
Pine cones. Stock-market quotations. Sunflowers. Classical architecture. Reproduction of bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature or works of man all seem to be related to a sequence of numbers named for 13th century Mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci. The earnest mathematics buffs of the California-based Fibonacci Association keep examining the phenomenon. The more they investigate, members insist, the more convinced they become that Fibonacci numbers pervade the world...
Among the material in his files are research papers showing that there are Fibonacci numerical patterns in the meter of works by Virgil and other Roman poets, and Fibonacci relationships between the different sizes of mosaic patterns in the floors of Greek and Roman ruins. There are studies showing that the ratio between any two successive larger Fibonacci numbers is 1 to 1.618-the same as the ratio between the sides of the "golden rectangle," a form that is traditionally used by artists and architects to produce effects that are most pleasing...
...Lazarus rising from the dead stands in front of the St. Lazarus Oratory near the Pittsburgh Airport. A 25-ft. bronze of an ectomorphic St. Peter casting his net will soon stand in New York's Lincoln Center just across from the Metropolitan Opera House. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Shrady does secular commissions as well, but admits "I have a special feeling for religious art." He received only $28,000, well below his usual fee, for the Nazareth doors-but they may remain on public display a lot longer than some of his other works. One Israeli architect...
...household: Mom (Ann Lynn) gives in to her latent lesbianism. Junior (Derek Lamden) develops insatiable lechery, and the good doctor himself breaks out in cold sweats over Luci's miniskirts. Director Alastair Reid uses lots of nervous zoom shots and enormous close-ups that suggest the influence of Roman Polanski in every area except talent. Although Baby Love offers a little something for everybody-voyeurism, nymphomania, homosexuality, sadism-it does not really have enough of any one to appeal to anyone...