Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With its lofty church steeples, tree-lined streets and 500 parking tickets, Mansfield, Ohio (pop. 55,300), appears to embody the friendly, well-scrubbed wholesomeness that Americans have long associated with small towns Martin Yant thinks otherwise...
...WHEN THE TREE SINGS by Stratis Haviaras is not, strictly speaking, a novel. More, it is a mosiac pieced together and carried along by the underlying current of a poet's vision. For Stratis Haviaras, now curator of the poetry collection at Lamont Library, is a Greek poet, and this tale of German-occupied Greece is his first book...
...away, on the edge of the Ohio River, some 2,000 men and women staged counterdemonstrations. They carried white carnations and sang: "Fighting for our women, we shall not be moved. Just like a tree that's planted by the water, we shall not be moved." They placed coat hangers at the motel doors of the pro-life supporters, with signs reading NO MORE COAT HANGER ABORTIONS. They even tacked a "proclamation of religious liberty" onto the pillar of St. Peter in Chains Cathedral to protest what they consider the Roman Catholic Church's attempts to coerce...
...TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS Directed and Written by Ermanno Olmi...
...evidence of this movie, the 1978 Grand Prize winner at Cannes, it seems safe to say that Italian Director Ermanno Olmi is no fan of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900. Like 1900, The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a lengthy (three hours), luxuriously photographed film about Italian peasants, but after that all similarities end. 1900 was a didactic epic that attempted to merge the florid drama of opera with the tenets of Marxism; Clogs is pointedly a tranquil, nonpolemical attempt to describe the peasants' daily existence in the objective manner of documentary cinema. Given their respective goals, Olmi...