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...LAST SIGH by Luis Buñuel Translated by Abigail Israel Knopf; 256 pages...
Revolutionaries fall into two main types: the romantic and the quasi-religious zealot. Danton, as envisioned by Wajda and Writer Jean-Claude Carrière (Buñuel's sometime collaborator) and brilliantly portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, is the former. Lazy, sensual and, above all, egocentric, he believes that he need do nothing but raise his famed orator's voice in order to bring the people to the counterrevolutionary barricades. Convinced of his own star qualities, he neglects to look back to see if anyone is actually following him or, despite warnings, to take practical steps...
DIED. Luis Buñuel, 83, Spanish film maker considered one of the cinema's greatest artists; of bile duct disease; in Mexico City. Son of wealthy, religious parents, Buñuel and his friend Salvador Dali transfigured their fantasies in 1929 into one of the first surrealist films, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a work of bizarre images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most...
...concluded that he did not need Manuel's services. TIME has learned that the hiring was actually scrapped by Hickey's boss, Michael Deaver, deputy chief of staff at the White House. Deaver was annoyed that Hickey had apparently secured Meese's approval to employ Man uel; jealous of his bureaucratic turf, Deaver ordered the hiring stopped...
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). Buñuel again, poignantly returning to his great subject, sexual obsession...