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...film begins with a vivid metaphor of love and death. A man and a woman lie in each other's arms in Hiroshima. Their bodies fill the screen in a luminous abstract of desire. But into this image of life burst images of death-recorded by Japanese cameramen who moved into Hiroshima the day after the bomb fell. Director Resnais permits himself no sensationalism, but the merest glimpses of the horror that was Hiroshima-acres of charred and moaning humanity-remind the audience with cruel force that the man and woman are making love in a mass grave...
Clea, by Lawrence Durrell. The febrile and exotic creatures with whom the author has peopled Alexandria are on view in the final volume of a vivid tetralogy...
Clea, by Lawrence Durrell. The febrile and exotic creatures with whom the author has peopled Alexandria are on view in the final volume of a vivid tetralogy...
Urbane, skeptical, ironic and wryly melancholy, Don Fabrizio is a major fictional character creation. Equally vivid are the evocation of the author's home soil and the wit with which Novelist Lampedusa can describe the single-minded gluttony of hungry rustics or the lethal chagrin of a jilted woman ("she wanted to kill as much as she wanted to die '"). But Lampedusa's subtlest effect is to write prose that seems to be aged in marble and encrusted with the patina of antiquity. Like a statue or a ruin, the book congeals a moment of time past...
...story is true, and Author Sandoz might just as well have told it straight, instead of grafting stiff-legged dialogue into striding narrative. Somehow, her Platte seems more vivid than her pioneers, and poor John Cozad looks a bit shriveled and out of focus, as if viewed from the Bottom of an empty glass of redeye...