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WHAT COMES together after four-and-a-half hours in the dark is a tremendous sense of Gance's technical innovations. Revolting against the dictates of the time, he sets the camera free of its confining tripod, creating a frenzy that propells history itself. To film the chase across Corsica, he straps a camera to a horse's back, and keeps pace with the lead troops. Not one image is blurred or out of focus. Before the audience, the foremost rider's horse unfolds its limbs in the rhythmical ritual of a gallop. Its nostrils flair, its hind quarters fleck...
...Gance alternates between two scenes bursting with the innovative use of his camera. The storm at sea, tinted a deep blue, is filmed within a vat. Gigantic waves rock the miniature boat with desperate slowness. Gance also shoots some close-up footage, using the same technique as with the chase: a camera fixed beside Napoleon's boat. From the distant view of great waves, we are brought suddenly into the thick of the storm, the young man furiously and futilely bailing his wreck with a bucket...
...King of the Confessors, Hoving details an earlier exploit: A three-year chase after an ivory Romanesque cross. Despite the warnings of colleagues that the cross might prove a forgery, Hoving, inspired by the descriptions of its incriptions, begins to track it down in 1960. The owner of the cross, a greasy Yugoslav with the unlikely name of Ante Topic Mimara, finally lets Hoving see the piece, and its beauty confounds him. Then, the hard part: The Met, where Hoving is assistant curator of the Medieval Department and the Cloisters, must outlast the competition and fork over...
...matter how drab, prosaic, or dull, is California just the same, the land of Golden Promise." Unlike the staid, conservative East, where the wealthy stayed wealthy and the poor stayed poor, the West had become a land of overnight wealth, of rags to riches, with nobody excluded from the chase. Many characters are willing to risk anything to find...
DIED. Brooks Hays, 83, folksy former Democratic Congressman from Arkansas whose moderate stands on racial issues, notably his attempt to mediate the 1957 integration crisis at Little Rock's Central High School, prompted a white supremacist campaign that ended his 16-year congressional career in 1958; in Chevy Chase, Md. After his defeat, Hays filled posts in the White House and State Department under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Of his role in trying to resolve the confrontation at Little Rock, Hays once said: "I felt like the sparrow that flew into the badminton game...