Word: preston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie genre to satirize itself in How I Won the War, but The Bed Sitting Room, which is funnier and more tightly controlled, makes How I Won look like a warm-up exercise. There has been no director of such prodigious comic invention since the halcyon days of Preston Sturges. Lester throws off sight gags and visual puns like some pyrotechnical pinwheel and molds character actors (Richardson, Roy Kinnear, the superb Michael Hordern) into a virtuoso stock company. But he also knows the value of good writing, and Charles Wood's script is a model of subdued rage...
...were to steal from any filmmaker, Downey would take from Preston Sturges, the American director whose Sullivan's Travels and Hail, the Conquering Hero are full of the kind of zaniness that abounds in Swope . Other favorite movies of Downey's are Varda's Le Bouheur, Losey's Servant, Titicut Follies, Citizen Kane, the Marx Brothers/Sam Wood's Night at the Opera, Kazan's On the Waterfront, Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes, and Truffaut's Jules...
Even in the University Health Services now "security measures" have made the Health Services the "most well-protected medical record in the country." according to Dr. Preston K. Munter, assistant director. A dubious distinction...
Died. George Preston Marshall, 72, owner of the National Football League's Washington Redskins and one of the game's most successful showmen; of a stroke; in Washington. For a mere $150 in 1932, Marshall bought the franchise for the floundering Boston Redskins, soon moved the team to Washington, where he gave the fans Slingin' Sammy Baugh at quarterback and dazzling marching bands at halftime. The football was sometimes very good (divisional titles in 1940, '42, '43, '45)-and the show always was-to the extent that Marshall boasted he never had a losing...
...theology has a strong this-worldly existentialist cast. "The idea of heaven is irrelevant for black theology," says Cone, the author of a recent book called Black Theology & Black Power. "The Christian cannot waste time contemplating the next world, if there is a next." One participant in the session, Preston N. Williams of Boston University, explained: "The black man cannot divorce theology from social action. Whites say, 'That's not theology at all.' The real question is who is going to define the norms of theology." Some Negro churchmen feel that theology created by white men views...