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Lawrence of Arabia. Blood, sand and stars (Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy), with the help of a top director (David Lean) and a $10 million budget make this the best superspectacle since...
...quarter and water runs out of an old innertube. At the same distance away are a telephone line and power line running down the highway." Scratches bulldozed in the desert are given glamorous names such as Riverside Drive. And in the center of this wasteland of sage and sand stands a giant billboard saying: THIS...
...Sand & Paint. There is an unexpected mood of joy in most of Kandinsky's work, almost an air of frivolity in some of it. Color, which he seemed to have made an honest effort to subdue in some of his early abstractions, keeps churning to the surface, and in the end he surrendered to it completely. He never ceased to experiment: one painting in the show, Accompanied Contrast (1935), has sand mixed in with the paint on the canvas. Later he seemed to be looking into a world of microscopy; his (Surroundings) (Environment) of 1936 resembles a blown...
Killing for Equality. Man's lust for power is given freest rein in a crowd. A crowd, for Canetti, is the basic unit of human society, akin to many things in nature: a contagious fire, an all-embracing sea, an immovable forest of trees, boundless sand. Men join crowds to escape the restrictions of life and the sense of isolation from others; the crowd provides a short-lived but deeply felt equality and companionship. "Stepping out of everything which binds, encloses and burdens them is the real reason for the elation which people feel in a crowd," writes Canetti...
Lawrence of Arabia. Blood, sand and stars (Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy), with the help of a top director (David Lean) and a $10 million budget, make this the best superspectacle since...