Word: criticized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most glorious bacchanal in the history of the cinema. At its opening last week at the Venice Film Festival, that promise seemed to be fulfilled. The normally reserved press corps gave the film a five-minute ovation, and the first-night audience was equally wide-eyed. Wrote one critic: "Satyricon is like an Atlantis that has emerged from .the deepest roots of the soul to mark the return of Fellini...
...more anguishing than La Dolce Vita because that had reality. Satyricon is made from an unknown point of view. I have invented everything myself, a universe out of my mind. There is nothing where I recognize myself. If anything, it is a kind of auto-destruction." Novelist-Critic Alberto Moravia recognized some of the old Fellini trademarks however: monstrous old people, perverse youth populating "an antique world in which decadence and death gradually drown and destroy the senses...
...novels, particularly The Tin Drum and Dog Years. Grass has also sought to prod Germans out of their complacency about the nation's Nazi past and materialistic present. Still, Grass downgrades his role as a social or political critic. "The idea that writers are the conscience of the nation is pure nonsense," he says. Others disagree. Professor Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz of Quebec's Laval University, who has written a literary critique of Grass, calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support...
...Britain's most uninhibited critic, the old man has taken savage swipes at the royal family, the Anglican Church, even Winston Churchill-and now the subject is sex. On the eve of Edinburgh's International Festival of the Arts, which was to offer plays featuring a homosexual embrace, two topless actresses and a sketch about the genitals of primitive man. Malcolm Muggeridge was moved to take the pulpit at St. Giles' Cathedral and inveigh against such "illiterate filth." "Have what passed for being art forms ever before been so drenched and impregnated with erotic obsessions, so insanely...
Ironically, one of the needle's chief critics is San Francisco's Planning Director Allan B. Jacobs (whose powers, however, are strictly advisory). "This is unmistakably a 'look-at-me' building that does not complement the buildings near it," he says. Architecture Critic Wolf von Eckardt questions the function of the spire: "Is [it] to stamp a Transamerica Corporation trademark on one of the most breathtaking skylines in the world?" The Northern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects argued that Transamerica could save the skyline and fulfill all its space requirements in a building...