Word: taras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think of it all tomorrow, at Tara ... Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another...
...begin at the beginning," said Chris Tara, Yale's first speaker. "God said 'Let the earth sprout grass' and he saw that it was good...
...fashioned man," says Jimmy, blue eyes round with candor, his mouth pursed in unfamiliar primness. "My parents have been in love for 35 years, and I want to get married." His first marriage, to a dancer, ended in 1966, and he has a daughter, Tara, 10. But he wants more kids to play ball with. "Time's passing," he says moodily, and he knows that in one respect he is not moving with it. He is hung up on women's looks. "I want companionship, a woman I can be friends with. But I still want beautiful friends...
...would be Pascal. No one since the late Max Ophuls (Lola Monies) has moved the camera quite so exuberantly, and with such easy, fluid symmetry. Such a luxurious style can sometimes weigh heavily on the material; in The Spider's Stratagem it complements the material, indeed reinforces it. Tara, its name recalling Gone With the Wind and conjuring up phantoms of romantic fiction, is turned into a single huge stage set on which the plot to conceal the treachery is daily re-enacted like an eternal pageant. Bertolucci's ornate camera movements, along with the superbly lush lighting...
...certain intense but stately vigor. Here, the elder Magnani takes a partner and leads her proudly and gracefully round the dance pavilion, demonstrating his contempt for the astonished Blackshirts standing on the sidelines. It is a lovely, graceful scene, and suggests another title for the film, First Polka in Tara. Not as apt, perhaps, but probably more commercial. - Jay Cocks