Word: vita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long ago left realism behind him to strike a tone of controlled fancy. Much of Amarcord is altered reality-memory heightened and changed by distance and by imagination. Everything is recognizable but never quite real. Of the large cast, only the actress Magali Noel, who appeared in La Dolce Vita and 8½ is familiar. The other performers were recruited according to the recent Fellini tradition: because the director liked their faces. He worries about performance later, frequently even giving them other voices, dubbed in once he has finished shooting. Whoever his actors are, and whatever tricks he uses...
...Christian Democrats encouraged too speedy and too easy a recovery from three years of recession. Labor unions, bolstered by Socialist and Communist support, made excessive wage demands. When these were not fulfilled, they struck until the country was groggy. Affluence-seeking consumers did their best to make the dolce vita permanent. Inevitably, inflation began to spiral toward a current rate of 20% a year. New worker protests took place, including a massive "park-in" by Rome taxi drivers demanding higher fares. With money reserves dwindling as Italy tried to correct a severe balance of payments deficit, last year...
...offering everything from Persian carpets and Damascus silks to transistor radios. In the modern west end, tree-lined boulevards are full of patisseries, flower shops and fashionable boutiques, reminders of the days when Syria was a French mandate. There is little of Beirut's brilliant but plastic dolce vita atmosphere, yet plenty to suggest that Damascus and Syria are authentically Arab...
...shockable. They have by now seen movies like Sunday, Bloody Sunday, in which a male lover is shared by Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch. They have read books like the bestseller. Portrait of a Marriage, in which Nigel Nicolson tells about the affairs that his happily married mother, Poet Vita Sackville-West, had with Novelists Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf. Other women, living and dead, whose bisexuality has recently been made known include Singer Janis Joplin, Writer Dorothy Thompson and Actresses Tallulah Bankhead and Maria (Last Tango) Schneider. "It has become very fashionable in elite and artistically creative subgroups...
...Grand Bouffe 4:40, 9:40; La Doice Vita...