Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian westerns washed up on American shores, audiences were delighted with their frenzied hyperbole, their melodramatic distortions of American cinematic folklore. Everyone assumed they were great satire and that Director Sergio Leone was either a big put-on or a superb con man. Leone's newest effort, Once Upon a Time in the West, with a major cast and a lot of big studio money behind it, proves that he is simply a serious bore...
...character actor who has appeared in everything from The Great Escape to The Dirty Dozen, he plays his first important lead with commendable skill. Unfortunately, such an overblown and overbearing film as this is too great a weight for any one man. The only thing capable of carrying Once Upon a Time in the West is a stagecoach-the one headed out of town...
Curmudgeon and Gadfly. As an organic cure for the complex ills of great U.S. cities, Jane Jacobs' program was preposterous. By itself, planned diversity could hardly create a new way of life for urban slum dwellers. Given the economic pressures working upon them, and the present tastes of middle-class and lower-class city dwellers alike. U.S. city planners are no more likely to re-create old neighborhood living successfully than William Morris would have been in rejuvenating Victorian England by establishing a Utopian handicraft community on the banks of the river Wandie. No matter. Despite her mistakes, Jane...
...turning New York City into a citystate with himself as philosopher-king, Mrs. Jacobs deals with each city as an isolated economic entity, with its own exports and imports. She ignores the economic interdependence of today's world and the enormous, unavoidable impact of government not merely upon the whole economy but-through tax and credit policies, commerce regulations and contracts-upon the very obscure and nascent businesses she most prizes. It is as if Mrs. Jacobs postulated that the vitality and effectiveness of a washerwoman's work can be judged by the vehemence of her elbows, while...
...need for originality is much prized by Cortazar. He once cast Theseus as a dullwitted, conventional, sword-swinging Victor Mature hero pitted against the Minotaur-seen as a poet-victim being set upon for his incendiary ideas. In a chapter of Cronopios and Famas, he offers Hamlet as a man obsessed with finding a five-leaf clover-a quest worthy of his proud and exceptional nature...