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Part One of the three confluent but contrasting parts of L'Avventura (The Adventure) is set on one of the Aeolian Isles, crests of a vast sunken crater in the Mediterranean. By placing his characters in this dead volcano. Antonioni clearly intends to suggest that they are spiritually extinct. The walking dead are idle-rich Italians, members of a yachting party, who lie sunning like lizards on the lava shelves. Anna (Lea Massari), the vivid brunette, is a restless little disperata who finds her life empty and is sick of filling it with sex. Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), Anna...
...hero sees his deliverance in a $10,000 check his mother gets from the company that insured his father. But Mamma won't allow "no liquor stores," which is what he wants to sink the money in. "Man!" he screams, "I'm a volcano ... a giant surrounded by ants!" When Mamma takes $3,500 and plunks it down on a house, the giant blubbers so pathetically that she hands him the rest. With boundless enthusiasm, the hero hands the wad to the first con man he meets. But in the end, with a sudden, improbable access of intelligence...
...November 1959 when Hawaii's Kilauea Iki volcano suddenly erupted and formed a lava pool 300 ft. deep in its own crater, no one in the neighborhood saw any particular reason to cheer. But at the University of California's Livermore Radiation Laboratory, the news brought joy to the hearts of a pair of bright young scientists. To Geologist Donald Rawson, 26, and Physicist Gary Higgins, 33, the new lava pool sounded like an ideal testing site for a key phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare: a plan for harnessing a steam-powered turbogenerator...
...Living Eye. For Durrell, this discovery is a kind of Dionysian revel of language, a sunburst of images. Red wine is "volcano's blood." The evening air is "cool as the breath from the heart of a melon." A sunset in Rhodes becomes a conflagration. This is the kind of thing Durrell does so well that he tends to overdo it. But, periodically, he lifts imagery to insight. Many have written of the preternatural brilliance and clarity of the Greek light, but Durrell sensitively isolates its effect when he calls Greece not a country but a living...
...gave the record sheet (No. 026508) to Dr. John Linsley, one of her immediate superiors at the Volcano Ranch installation, but he put it aside for more pressing matters. Seven weeks ago it was processed and sent to the Kirtland com puter-thence back to Volcano Ranch for final appraisal...