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...slacks and shirt, she looks jaunty enough for a cruise; nothing could ever make her nauseated. Or she finishes the velvet slippers she is whipping up for Dad; all embroidery done during The Period of Expectancy is performed under the pale light of a cut-glass chandelier, in a full-length chiffon hostess gown, no matter that it's the middle of the day. Or she shows three-year-old Junior the bassinet being readied for Baby; Junior, never having heard of sibling rivalry or displacement, smiles as he runs his freshly scrubbed hands over the imported organdy flounces...
Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita opened with a statue of Christ soaring through the skies above Rome. That was three years ago, followed by a long quiet period during which the masses have patiently waited for the master's next full-length film. Just released in Italy, Fellini's new "8½" begins with . . . what have we here? Soaring in the skies above Rome is not Christ but Marcello Mastroianni, all 154 pounds of him up there flying on a string like a great dihedral kite...
...actors knew what the film was about. There was no script, and the seven existing copies of an "outline" were locked in a safe each night. Only the egomathematical title itself has a concise and plausible explication: it represents the number of films Fellini has made until now-eight full-length features and two quarter-length films, the latest of which was The Temptation of Doctor Antonio from Boccaccio...
Cramped by tradition, Liszt insisted on writing a full-length sonata without sonata form, without movements, and with no more than a bare minimum of thematic material. The stuff of his piece is virtually over in the first fifteen measures: the introduction, a meditative, decending scale in the piano's lower registers, then the main theme, crashing, acrobatic octaves followed by a tiny march, again down...
...Purree. A full-length, somewhat overanimated cattoon about a pretty French pussy named Mewsette who falls in with a sinister allee cat but is rescued by a hair-trigger mouser...