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...more. When things get too tough, Cantabrigians can drop by their local Visconti 2000 Center for Peak Performance and Neuro-Sensory Development, say goodbye to the world, and find their Zone...
...through it all, the center's founder, Maryellen Visconti, coaches your "MIND/BRAIN workout." Her equipment, a roomful of electronic light and sound machines using '21st century technology," are the tools for her MindMax System. According to Visconti, her system is the only one of its kind in the world...
Located on the third floor of the Porter Exchange in Porter Square, Visconti's center, furnished with space-age sofas and chairs, caters mostly to male businessmen in their twenties and thirties. Customers have also included some Harvard and MIT students, who are willing to shell out $35 for a half hour session in order to, as the center puts it, "get in the Flow...
...sent to a labor camp. He escaped and hid in a tailor's attic in Venice until the end of the war. He had studied to be an architect but drifted into acting, making his film debut in 1947 in I Miserabili. The following year he joined Luchino Visconti's Milan theater troupe. "It was the most important company in Italy," he says. "So I got into the theater from the golden door...
...Mastroianni attained Italian film stardom as the wistful suitor in Visconti's White Nights, and in 1959 Fellini made him an international icon by casting him in La Dolce Vita. Mastroianni compares these two men, who were crucial to his career: "Visconti was the teacher. Severe, but we like him. Fellini is your benchmate, the one you sit next to and make jokes. With Fellini, always we make it a joke. The more serious the film, the more we laugh. We don't say, 'Oh, maestro, how beautiful is this thing you are creating!' We think this...