Word: vittoria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This self-consciousness keeps him from expressing gracefully any emotions he might actually feel and also from understanding anyone else's feelings. Vittoria (Monica Vitti) brings him to her mother's house and makes an innocent joke: she lies on her old bed--now much too short--and laughs gaily. Piero makes an ill-timed and unsuccessful pass at her and destroys her pleasure...
...fact someone always ruins Vittoria's little pleasures. Her larger desires are never even expressed; and no wonder, for which of the shallow and self-centered people she knows could she communicate them to? She has not put her feelings into words. When Piero questions her--not because he is interested in what she might say, but to keep the conversation going--she can only answer, again and again, "I don't know...
Glancing down the program again, I am impressed by the versatility of both groups. Their range extends from Vittoria motets and Byrd madrigals to Negro spirituals and German drinking songs, but it is just this extension that bothers me, and I suspect many others, as we sat for two and a half hours in Sanders listening to almost thirty separate numbers. They all were admirably performed but only a very few had much musical substance; the total effect cloyed with its emptiness as much as those long-play records of "gems from the classical repertoire." Now please don't dismiss...
...principal master" of Florence. His writhing Hercules and Antaeus, the only surviving statuette, positively known to be his, almost cries out in agony. Wild Man on Horseback, by Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello, rides with savage majesty upon a steed of extraordinary elegance. Though less renowned, Alessandro Vittoria left in his 19½-in.-high Neptune a figure of hypnotic power. There is no doubt that this small god could quell a storm with his anger...
...When Vittoria and Flamineo are on stage, you hope that Webster will forget how to write an exit line. Particularly in their syncopated death scene, murder is shown to be a business which impoverishes all its entrepreneurs...