Word: zola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other movies at Venice left everything in ashes without turning anything on fire. From Germany, from France, from Italy, from India, even from sentimental old Mother Russia, came long, unarguable movie testaments to the dreariness of it all. La Curée, Roger Vadim's version of Zola's Alexandre, impressed most critics as little more than a soap bubble around his wife Jane Fonda. The U.S., displaying more invention than intelligence, came up with Chappaqua, a booze-and-drug Upanishad displaying Allen Ginsberg, the poor man's Whitman. The festival scene had become such a cluttered...
...Adventurers' international-jet-set subjects would confound a Zola. In the hands of Robbins they become like the projections of CinemaScope: highly colored, nine times larger than life, and relentlessly two-dimensional. One of the projections is Diogenes ("Dax") Xenos, diplomat, soldier, businessman, patriot, politician, international satyr and unintentional satire. Dax is to women what Dash is to washing machines: he makes them feel ten feet tall. His sometime pals, a French playboy and a White Russian con man, are not far behind in their technique: one of them receives a gold cigarette case from a female admirer inscribed...
...just as well for Kasavubu that he was not on hand. By the time the final name on the roll (Senator Emile Zola from Kongo Central) was called, Parliament had thrown out his handpicked Kimba regime by a vote of 134 to 121 and handed Tshombe a narrow but satisfying victory. It was, however, only the first round. Kasavubu immediately asked Kimba to form another Cabinet, which under the constitution gave the defeated Premier another 30 days of grace before Tshombe could mount a new challenge in Parliament...
...major novelist of a minor language: Portuguese. A scrawny chap with big buck teeth and a hook nose, Eça de Queiroz (pronounced Essa de Kay-rozh) spent most of his life as a Portuguese consul in London and Paris, fell under the spell of Flaubert and Zola, wrote a stack of realistic novels that appalled the provincial Portuguese and impressed some literate Parisians but missed fire in America. In 1962, however, a translation of O Crime do Padre Amaro presented him to U.S. readers as a satirist of force and finesse...
Compared with the 19th century poor so bitingly described in literature-Zola's Gervaise "was quite willing to dispute with a dog for a bone"-the American poor are well off. They would be considered rich by most Red Chinese, whose per capita annual income averages $70. In southern Italy and Sicily, thousands of nullatenenti (havenots) live in caves or open trenches. Poverty is too soft a word to describe the puffed stomachs that are common sights in India, Africa and Brazil's northeast. On the other hand, Scandinavia knows nothing like American slums, and Soviet Russia...