Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED is a romp through the lighter side of life during the crash, the Depression and World War II. The Porter wit and comic vision prove there was indeed a lighter side...
...wholeheartedly concede that the human body is a thing of great beauty and that things of great beauty should be admired and appreciated. However, as a wife, mother and registered nurse, I find the vision of a pair of breasts bouncing over a cocktail tray outrageous to my sense of "public decency." The human body should not appear publicly out of context with the values classified roughly as "the finer things of life," including mature adult love, fine art and music...
...opens a retrospective of 140 works this week and London's Tate Gallery prepares another exhibition for July, Giacometti seems less tormented than an observer of a disjointed, brisk and familiar world. It is a world that, for all its grotesque attenuation, testifies to a robust, humanistic vision. The pessimism of a previous era, which colored his art grey, may no longer apply...
Today, he says, "my home is hotel rooms." He is a man without a country, without an orchestra, without a recording contract. All he has instead is his talent and an exalted vision. He says: "I have never compromised...
Zulu power had begun to consolidate some 60 years before Isandhlwana under a rapacious and cruel tribal chieftain, who was called Shaka after his unseemly birth.* Viewing South Africa's teeming, disputatious tribes, Shaka had a vision of the strength that unity could bring, and he set out in 1817 to unify by conquest. Within a year, his modest impi of 350 warriors had swollen to 2,000. In ten years, an army of 50,000 enforced Shaka's will over a domain the size of Nevada...