Word: petronius
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...grace under too little pressure. He is accused of having a "designer's eye." Spelled out, this means that Liberman is good at reeling off elegant solutions to undemanding formal problems but has no very striking imagination of his own. Besides, he is editorial director of Conde Nast-Petronius Arbiter in a gray suit-and there are critics who (subliminally, no doubt) feel that nobody as socially conspicuous as that should be treated with complete seriousness as an artist...
...FELLINI'S Rome, no one che's, and it is no place you can go. Roma may have the trappings of documentary but it has the flesh of sheer fantasy. It has no more to do with the public, historical Rome than Fellini Satyricon had to do with Petronius...
...When sportswriters got tired of extolling his exploits on the field, they zeroed in on his between-games lifestyle. There were photos and stories about his bachelor pad on Manhattan's East Side, which featured a white llama rug-and, purportedly, some of the unholiest debaucheries since Petronius' last house party. No American beauty could regard her career as complete without a date with "Broadway Joe" (a bad geographical misnomer, because Namath's favorite haunts-Dudes 'n' Dolls, Mister Laffs, P.J. Clarke's-were many blocks and light years away from Broadway). He made...
Satyricon--A vile Fellini phantasmagoria based on Petronius but lacking the wit and lightness of the epicurean's touch. With Marat Sade, Peter Brook's sensational and sensationalistic production of the finally incoherent Peter Weiss play. CINEMA 733 (Thurs. and Fri.) Call 266-0342 for times...
...poet named Eumolphus, and the two talk of the decadent disrepair of the art of their time, and look back wistfully to past classics. Having thus conveniently suspended the present in cultural malaise, the two head off to a banquet/orgy given by Trimalchio. a fat old fart whom Petronius, the author of the original Satyricon, patterned after the Emperor Nero. The debauch at the party is complete, happily (for me) beyond the descriptive power of adjectives and adverbs. Merriment is cooled by a breach of good taste when Eumolphus accuses Trimalchio of plagiarizing Lucretius, Obviously he is correct, for Trimalchio...