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...June, and if anything, Cunningham has only got more audacious and more, well, cunning in the past six years. Like The Hours, Specimen Days is a fugue in three parts: it consists of three stories, each set in a different historical period--the Industrial Revolution, the 1920s and the far future. And each is told in a different style: ghost story, hard-boiled mystery and science fiction. You read that right. The third section will be set in New York City in the 22nd century, by which time the Big Apple will be dealing with a massive influx of refugees...
...friend who thought Houck needed to make some changes took him to a meeting at the local YMCA of the Oxford Group, an evangelical society founded in Britain by Frank Buchman that was prominent in the 1920s. Houck was immediately drawn to the group's teachings, which were based on four principles: honesty, purity, unselfishness and love. He was especially moved by the concept of "two-way" prayer: the group taught that if you spent quiet time every day listening to God, he would provide guidance. You were also encouraged to make restitution, to "put right what's wrong...
...area where American economic (and stylistic) dominance has driven complicated cultural and institutional resistance, it has been in film. Resistance to Hollywood has been national and personal; it’s been aesthetically radical and desperately imitative; but Hollywood has been the elephant in the room since the 1920s...
...With Two Left Feet (1917), and the rest is history. To the many theories about the characters' origins, McCrum insightfully adds: "The cunning servant?foolish master has been a staple of comedy since classical times, and Wodehouse certainly knew his Plautus and his Terence." By the 1920s, magazines like Liberty and The Saturday Evening Post would pay up to $35,000 to serialize a Wodehouse novel. At the dawn of the Depression, he had a Mayfair mansion and a Rolls Royce with his crest on the door. Money led to his downfall. Tax authorities in the U.S. and Britain began...
...nature of wanting to be a star." Beyond that, though, he sees his flyer in classic terms: as Croesus or Midas, with a golden curse, or as Icarus, flying too close to the sun on waxy wings. Above all, The Aviator, expensively set in the America of the 1920s, '30s and '40s, promises to be as grandly aspiring as its subject, and this being a Martin Scorsese film, full of grim foreshadowings as well. "The seeds of his own destruction are right inside of him," the director muses, happy to have once again embraced romanticism's darker side...