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...showing up in theatrical release, owing largely to distributors' reluctance to handle documentaries on any subjects more serious than the making of a pornographic movie. The biographical material in the film is sketchy. Rubinstein talks about his life in Poland, a youthful suicide attempt thwarted by a weak rope, his first success in Paris, flight to the U.S. If the journalistic material is cursory, though, the music is close to celestial. Rubinstein performs Beethoven, Brahms, a little Villa-Lobos and a Chopin polonaise, whose strength and lofty, rushing romanticism seem emblematic of the man himself...
...State College in Chicago Heights. So far, with the help of small contributions from the city, the U.S. Government and the Stone Foundation, Yamashita has painted the side of an old apartment building with a picture of waves surrounding Mount Fuji, hung a thick, 165-ft.-long, rainbow-hued rope from the roof of another structure, and rainbowed-rainbows are his thing -the grim walls of a sunken roadway...
...unwrapped frugally and eaten over a period of time. It must keep up to six months, so some air must get to it but flies must not. The answer in Ishikawa prefecture is to sheathe it in straight wisps of straw and then bind it in straw rope like a corn husk, unwrap as much as you need, cut it off, close the inner layer of straw, retie the bundle. Such packaging uses humble materials with breathtaking panache: witness a bottle for sweet sake from Tokyo, coarse brown earthenware capped with a mottled sheet of bamboo bark and tied with...
...greatest dispute in psychoanalysis but it certainly wasn't the most insane. Freud's power over his followers was frightening, even fatal, and his victims were not all ideas. His personal and scientific rejection of Victor Tausk helped drive him to a horribly deliberate suicide by both gun and rope and shortly after Freud wrote Herbert Silberer that "I no longer desire personal contact with you," because of a basically professional argument. Silberer hanged himself, dramatically leaving a flashlight in his face and a letter, to Freud, on his desk. The personalities were so strong that important ideas were often...
...bargain. The Last Days of Man on Earth, fractured and funny, is an authentic curiosity. Pace Woody Allen, it is a true sleeper, a movie both of substantial flaw and surprise. When one of the scientists announces with pride that the group has "the best brains in Eu rope working for us," and when it is shown just what he means, Allen would recognize a kindred anarchic spirit...