Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divorced from reality. What is just as bad is the shameful fact that Dino is rich, or at least his mother is. And Dino hates money and the people who have it. Still, he accepts enough to enable him to set up as a painter in Rome's Via Margutta...
...Bernauerstrasse, where the frontier literally ends at the sidewalk, windows of the drab apartment houses on the Communist side have been bricked up and doors bolted or barred from the basement level to the sixth floor. This is to stop the jumpers who have been leaping to freedom via the nets of willing West Berlin firemen on the street below. The trick is to toss a note into the street ("Urgent! Call the fire department! I am coming down in ten minutes!"), then pray that the nets arrive before the Communist Volkspolizei get wind of what...
...believes that the attack may well be the signal for a new Red drive against South Viet Nam, part of an overall, constant movement to infiltrate and encircle the whole area (see map). The Viet Cong guerrillas get their seasoned cadres and supplies from Communist North Viet Nam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which parallels the borders of neighboring Laos and Cambodia. There is no interference from Laos, which may even be a supplier, since daily flights of Soviet Ilyushin planes land on the Communist-held Plaine des Jarres to disgorge arms for the 20,000-man Pathet...
Charles Willson Peale had West in mind when he sent his two portraits to England via General Reed: he hoped that West would recommend a first-rate engraver for his portraits. For some reason that lies buried in the past, General Reed's in-laws, a family named De Berdt, consigned them to their attic. One evening last spring, an art dealer got to talking to a member of the De Berdt family who casually mentioned that there were two early American paintings somewhere in his house. They were identified as Peale's, and the news was flashed...
...complaint has been levelled against Fellini that in La Dolce via he documents while failing to condemn Purposelessness; but this is untrue. The tension in Dolce Vita is accounted for by an unmistakable sense of time and life being wasted. Fellini, in short, recognizes the line between fascination and sympathy. Godard ignores it, and has designed Breathless simply to titillate...