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...Last Emperor's director that they loved the movie, they really loved it? Surely there were waves of affection breaking over the winners of the acting prizes: Cher (Moonstruck), Michael Douglas (Wall Street), Sean Connery (The Untouchables) and Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck). But The Last Emperor, with its stern, sumptuous sprawl, more likely earned a decorous, distanced respect in a slim year. The other nominees for Best Picture were three comedies and one high-tech yuppie horror movie -- not the Academy's favorite genres. By contrast, Bertolucci's true-life fable of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, China's last monarch...
...couldn't happen to a weirder film. Just try to imagine a 1962 audience sitting down to this scene: a company of G.I.s sprawl half-dozing through a women's-club lecture in a New Jersey hotel. The camera pans 360 degrees around the room and back to the soldiers and the speaker, who is now revealed as a Chinese specialist in mind control. He orders Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) to shoot one of his men, and the victim's brains splatter across a poster of Stalin. What's going on here? And what is one to make...
Today Americana's population has swelled to 160,000, largely owing to waves of Portuguese, Italian and Japanese immigrants who came to Brazil. It looks like any other small Brazilian city. A tiny cluster of taller office buildings dwarfs a semi-industrial sprawl. Intermarriage has turned today's generation of Confederate descendants into darker-skinned Brazilians...
Such are the questions that linger in the air as 50 people sprawl on pillows inside one of Esalen's mirrored conference rooms, gathering one radiant week for a five-day seminar called "Our Myth-Body to Live By." The topic is vintage Esalen: an attempt to marry impulses physical and metaphysical. So too are the seminar leaders: Joseph Campbell, mythologer supreme and godfather to many a '60s quester, and Chungliang Al Huang, a Chinese-born master of Tai Chi. For six hours each day, the octogenarian Campbell sits cross-legged on the floor and improvises passionate lectures about Navajo...
...kind, and her sly smile makes a strong case in favor of whatever it is that accounts for her contentment. When people spread into the landscape, who is to draw the limits? Sternfeld's picture may not answer the question, but he poses it in terms sympathetic to democratic sprawl. The asphalt road that rises diagonally behind the woman could be a heraldic line for the house of tomorrow...