Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of a story. What's more, it is told with a slowness slowed still further by memories in the form of flashbacks. But slow is not dull. Slow in this film is fascinating, as a big slow snake is fascinating. Slow is the director's way of giving the spectator time to experience the story as life is experienced: moment by moment and yet somehow also as a simultaneous entirety. At 32, Olmi is a master of his complex craft, but he wisely uses his art to conceal his art and to reveal what he means...
Eliminating the Snake. When Lawyer Leibowitz ran as the Democratic candidate for a Brooklyn county-court judgeship in 1940, his opponents warned that a defender of criminals would surely be soft on criminals before the bar. As if in answer, the new judge acquired the nickname "Sentencing Sam." "Once a criminal has the handcuffs on him, he knows it's not going to be a picnic in Kings County Court today," said Leibowitz. He was especially tough on criminals with previous arrests on their records. "I eliminate a poisonous snake from the community...
...Lucky Snake. Meanwhile, the U.S. ordered units of the U.S. Seventh Fleet into the waters off Viet Nam as a "precautionary measure" should it be necessary to protect the lives of Americans. Washington presumably also had in mind a warning to the Communist Viet Cong should it choose political uncertainty in Saigon as an opportunity to launch a major offensive...
...fashion show ever. Under the glassy glare of stuffed animals and the classy stare of fashion writers, five sexy mannequins paraded such sporty ensembles as a corduroy shooting jacket with suede gun patches and shell-case buttons; a polar-bear parka for $2,000; a pleated shooting culotte with snake-proof boots for huntresses with pretty knees; a silver hair-seal parka with hair-seal skates to match; and to keep warmer still-the chicest, sleekest flask, called Little Nipper, designed to fit on the sveltest hip and never make an unintended bulge. The response was enough to warm even...
...hoped to found not just a colony but a New Spain. Instead, the Mexicans absorbed the Spaniards. The viceroy took the place of Montezuma; Christ became the altar ego of the god Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent and savior who can both soar like a bird and slither like a snake. In 17th century crucifixes by Indian artisans, Christ's body does not hang upon the Cross, but becomes part of it, styled after pre-Columbian pieces in which animals and human figures became part of the pottery. In one oil, a viceroy's horse becomes an intricate tattoo...