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...shoots himself. This clears his head once and for all, and in a moment of revelation he sees that the way to turn chaos into creativity is to stop brooding about the hobgoblins of his dreams and to start working on a film about the real people who surround him. 8½ is at least a wildly pictorial electroencephalogram, at best a fascinating ride down Fellini's stream of unconsciousness. Says he: "All I can say is that it did me good to make it. It was a liberating experience." But is that a reason for showing it publicly...
...strength of decision, so that he will surround himself with "strong men holding strong opinions, not just satraps...
...Seagram Building, designed by Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, has been judged by New York City's Tax Commission to be so expensively elegant that it should be taxed on a basis about 50% higher than if it were one of the bleak glass boxes that surround...
...avowed Communist, Eli de Gotari, 41, was rector of the university. In an act of courage, Michoacan's anti-Communist Governor, Agustin Arriaga Rivera, dismissed De Gotari, after 40 days of student riots that ended only when a student was killed and the federal government sent troops to surround the school and jets to buzz the city. Last month an audit of the university's books showed that during his 17 months in office, De Gotari had doled out $51,600 in university funds to anti-U.S. or pro-Communist organizations and publications. Even so, there...
...have information that the castle may really be a prison," Vellucci stated. He pointed to the moat which will surround the seven-story, window-scarce monolith, as evidence of secret designs by the Education School. "They may have crocodiles swimming around in there," Vellucci declared...