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...development of the narrative film, emphasizing the relationship between film aesthetics and meaning. The films that will be shown represent a history of genre as much as of film itself (Comedies, musicals, and drama will be shown). Classics like Keaton's "The General" and Von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel" will be shown along with more esoteric films such as G. W. Pabst's "Kameradshaft" and Carl Dreyer's "Day of Wrath." Students might question the complete absence of any New Wave films whatsoever and the presence of such films as Reed's "The Third Man" and Kelly/Donen's "Singing...
Sobbing and Swooning. Her eyes were big and soulful. Her body was broad, her legs heavy, her voice a trombone blare. Propounding the "Foursquare Gospel," she dressed sometimes in gauzy robes that floated out behind her like angel wings. Sometimes she appeared in the uniform of a sailor, fireman or traffic cop ("Stop! You are breaking God's law!"). She illustrated her sermons with skits or pantomimes and composed oratorios for a chorus of 500. The effect of all this was hallucinogenic. Five thousand listeners gasped and sobbed and swooned...
...came an Angel who had a bright...
...miles of the star, it would be hopelessly stalled by its magnetic field. Still unconvinced, Kemp and Swedlund considered other factors-stray molecules in interstellar space, for example -that might have distorted the dwarf's light. But repeated observations produced the same results. Finally, Columbia University Astronomers Roger Angel and John Landstreet, told of the strange readings atop Pine Mountain, quickly verified them with more powerful telescopes and slightly different techniques at Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory...
...patient angel who tamed an irascible king while teaching many of his 82 children? Anna Leonowens, the fabled Welsh widow whose problems with Siam's King Mongkut in the 1860s were written into a bestseller of the 1940s, Anna and the King of Siam, was no such heroine. Never mind the book or the stage and screen versions, says Ian Grimble, a Scottish historian. He startled BBC listeners by describing Anna as a bigot, "one of those awful little English governesses, a sex-starved widow." Grimble says he bases his ungallant appraisal on a study of Anna...