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...statistical distinction of the U.S.S.R. is the number of its movie theaters: there are 154,000 of them, which is 58% of all the cinemas in the world. The U.S. is second with only 16,000. One reason for this amazing proliferation is that Soviet doctrine?especially before the advent of television?emphasized film as a medium of propaganda and indoctrination. Another and perhaps more important reason is that the Soviets are eager for any entertainment as a relief from boredom...
...anecdotes are often tinged by sorrow, the melancholy is appropriate. Brownlow feels a true sense of loss about the era he describes. So many of the people and landmarks are gone now; so many early films have literally turned to dust. Brownlow holds that the advent of sound robbed movies of their power to stimulate the viewers' imaginations: once the audience no longer had to imagine voices, it ceased to be an active "creative contributor to the process of making a film." Hollywood: The Pioneers offers powerful support for that belief, including a 1928 photo that draws the curtain...
...take this break in relations as a good omen. Iranians have forced an oppressive superpower to terminate its pillage here. The nation is justified in celebrating the advent of victory...
...French parliament, controlling the government for nearly three years. Suspending revolutionary methods of working class agitation, the PCF concentrated its efforts on the legal conquest of a legislative mandate. The Communists dominated the entire public sector by 1947, from garbage collection to atomic energy development. But with the advent of the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine the party had either to abdicate its claim as a revolutionary party, or leave the government. Unwilling to gamble, the party went into a 20-year exile. Now, faced with the same political alternatives, the PCF remains consistent. In a milquetoast move that...
...good wheatland costs $1,500 an acre. Thus the typical Cass County farmer is running a business worth $1.5 million just for property. Then comes equipment. A tractor that sold for $16,000 in 1974 now costs at least twice as much, and farmers already talk glumly about the advent of $100,000 combines...