Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between such attempts at stylistic experiments that the film succeeds most. Macbeth is a horror story, sordidly realistic, brutal and bloody, and here the Polanski of the cinema of cruelty is completely at home. The murder of Banquo and the appearance of his bloodied ghost at the supper table, the discovery of the slaughtered Duncan, the madness of of Lady Macbeth, and Macbeth's final battle with Macduff--in all these scenes Polanski approaches a Shakespearean enjoyment in the sheer physical stuff of tragedy...
...joins him in the fields. A member of a 300-man production team-one of six on the commune-he will then have to face three hours in the field before a brief lunch of millet, sorghum and tea. Then it is back to the fields until sundown. Before supper-occasionally it may include meat, chicken or some other delicacy-there may be time for the peasant to work on his private plot of land, on which he grows vegetables to vary the family diet and for extra cash...
...moral worth," said he had no more hard feelings. "I had my say," declared Charlie. "They said I was a Communist and I said 'So what.' In fact, I never engaged in any Communist activity." Times have changed; David Rockefeller Jr. is in charge of the champagne supper and film showing with a price range of $100 to $250 per ticket...
...second question-whether Irving ever met with Hughes-brought a compelling refutation last week in the form of a willowy Danish aristocrat named Nina van Pallandt, 38, a well-known folk singer in Europe. Now on her own, she used to appear on television and in supper clubs with her husband, Baron Frederik van Pallandt, from whom she has been separated since 1969. For years she has had an Ibiza villa. "Whenever Nina's name was mentioned," a friend of the Irvings says, "Edith would climb the wall...
...Eastern illuminations, mosaics and sculptures, all of it superbly reproduced in color. But the real eye-stoppers are the photographs of places where Jesus may have walked, such as the ancient stone steps leading to Mount Sion, which, says Lessing, Jesus probably used on the night of the Last Supper; and Jerusalem's 2,700-year-old Pool of Siloam, where, according to the Gospel of John, Jesus sent a blind man to bathe-and thereby restored his sight...