Word: grandeur
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...first summer in the States, Cooke drove West, in a car he bought for $45, recording the country's vast grandeur and roadside vignettes with a movie camera he bought for $22. (Some of his road movies are included in the PBS show.) Destination: Hollywood. He had written to the Manchester Guardian saying he'd arranged interviews with top stars, and to the stars saying he was from the Guardian. Both claims were premature but prescient. He'd stay at the paper for the next 70 years, and he instantly befriended the cinemarati. One of his first film works, which...
Highlight Reel:1. On the reputation of the pig: "Traditionally, pork is the staple meat of rural Galicia. It's a good, dependable food source. But dependable is the word. The pig does not evoke a sense of grandeur. It is an everyday animal. And its meat is not generally considered to be glamorous or sexy. Think sexy meat and it's a big juicy fillet or beef winking up at you from the plate, next to it a decent bottle of Bordeaux. Think healthy meat, if you must, and it's a small portion of free-range chicken breast...
...undergrads in order to see whether Harvard students would do better taking the SATs now, or if our best standardized days, along with curfews and chaperoned dances, are a thing of the past. 1. The ________ decor of the King’s palace left many in wonder of its grandeur. A) poor B) sybaritic C) luxuriant D) austere E) bucolic Most popular answer: C Correct answer: B 2. In Annenberg, a survey was conducted with the Class of 2012. In a class of 1666 students, 397 students sneak out cereal, 210 sneak out fruit, and 110 sneak out both cereal...
...cowboys and horses, paralleling the real devastation in the West while also maintaining a self-referential quality, reminding the viewer of the damage caused by reckless adventures in the digital realm. But this deconstruction also brings out more nuanced aspects of the film. Simplifying the image underscores the grandeur of the movements filmed; there is something epic about the way a flowing line of horses stretch across the screen, creating a continuous sienna strip. At times, the image is reminiscent of early impressionist painting—Turner comes to mind. With the loss of image clarity comes an exciting development...
...remember. I do remember a kind of delirium...I didn't acknowledge faith in these moments at the foot of the statue. But something greater than creedal formulation took hold of me, a sense that this Lord of Lords belonged to me in all his beauty and grandeur...