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...everyday film recordings have something special to me,” he said. “They always ask a lot of questions: who, why, what, where?...Amateur film, to me, uses the language of ancient film, of Eisenstein, Griffith, of the great American avant-garde filmmakers of the 1920s and 30s.” The filmmaker is fascinated not just by history but also by this sense of how film and images communicate meaning to an audience. “Wittgenstein Tractatus,” Forgács’s tribute to Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein...
...houseguests. But their humble abode still stands, the oldest building at Harvard and the second-oldest academic building in the country (behind the Christopher Wren building at the College of William and Mary). During the nineteenth century, Mass. Hall was used as dormitory, office, and administrative space. In the 1920s it was converted back into a dormitory, and in 1939 the offices of the president moved from University Hall across the Yard to Mass. Hall. Until 2007, the top two floors of the building held approximately two-dozen first-year students, but the dorm was taken offline...
Historically speaking, fashion trends and tastes often serve as early harbingers of economic change. In the booming, pre-Crash 1920s, flapper hemlines bounced giddily to the knee before falling down to the ankles in the depressed 1930s. The 1960s' youthquake, complete with postage-stamp-size miniskirts, heralded a similar stylistic ebullience before the oil crisis of the 1970s plunged fashion back into an earnest, hippie frame of mind...
...lack of a star like John Galliano or Marc Jacobs as a disadvantage because the brand may seem amorphous and harder for a consumer to pin down. On the plus side, shareholders need not fret about atrophying taste or succession. While the company name dates back to the 1920s, the foundations for today's business were put in place at the end of the '60s, when brothers Uwe and Jochen Holy started to manufacture menswear under their grandfather's name. By 1985, Hugo Boss was listed on the German stock exchange, and today it is part of V.F.G. International...
...smoking-ban announcement coincided with the opening of a new exhibit examining the reprehensible marketing tactics tobacco companies used in the 1920s to 1950s. Advertisements featured everything from smiling doctors enjoying a “healthy” smoke to pseudo-scientific medical facts meant to allay rising health concerns and avoid losing customers...