Word: visconti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boring. Born in Fontana Liri, 50 miles outside Rome, to a carpenter who went blind and a housewife who went deaf ("They were like a comic couple," he said), Mastroianni did time in a German labor camp during World War II, then escaped to Venice and later to Luchino Visconti's famed Milan theater troupe. The screen had to claim this face, so sensitive, masculine and alert, but it took a decade or more for him to achieve true Marcellosity. In Visconti's rapturous White Nights (1957), Mastroianni spent the whole movie pleading fruitlessly for Maria Schell's love...
Swets does, however, find some value in Visconti's systems. "We compliment these folks on trying to be innovative," he says. "We're not going to accept their hypotheses, but we're not going to reject them, either...
According to Swets, many of the researchers from whom Visconti compiles evidence are discredited by the NRC. Two of these people who Visconticites are mind researcher Tony Buzan and Rumanian "suggestopedia" theorizer Dr. Georgi Lozanov. Suggestopedia, says Lozanov, increases at least 25 times our memorization abilities...
...assistant professor in Nutrition and Media at Boston University's School of Health Sciences, Visconti measures success through pre and post-tests, and cites as proof of her system's effectiveness the relaxation of those who perform the workout. She points to golfer Rocky Thompson, who claimed in The Boston Globe that the light and sound goggles helped him relax for his golf tournaments...
...despite the doubting Toms, firm in her commitment to her innovative technology, says she will continue to help people reach their intellectual peaks. And so, deep in the heart of the Porter Exchange, Visconti contiues to search for what she calls, "the Future Human...