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...traditional models of analysis that continue to bear my respect, and feeling myself qualified as a cinephile for familial reasons (my father, a self-educated individual had such an abiding love for silent film that my childhood was spent in front of 16-millimeter films) it seemed propitious to launch a course on French cinema. It began with an enrollment of 120, soon split into two sections ("realism" and "new wave"), and then ramified into seminar-topics ("auteur" theory, structural cinema, cinema of cruelty...). The course became something of a machine, what Gilles Deleuze would have called a "spiritual automaton...
...last, he tried to do so. All summer long, as his party allies snorted and pawed over a double-digit gap in the polls, Dole remained serene in his conviction that voters wouldn't start paying attention to politics until the traditional Labor Day launch of the general election. The nominee had told nearly every audience for months that he would burst upon the scene in September after a successful convention, with a popular vice-presidential candidate and a clear economic message. Best of all, he said, his cash-starved campaign would be revived by $62 million in federal funds...
...transcontinental railroad. As usual, Burns and Ives use personal stories to humanize large events. We learn, for example, about Charles Goodnight, the Texas rancher who returned from the Civil War, found that cattle prices had plummeted and decided to take his herd north to look for buyers--thus helping launch the era of the great cattle drives. The story of the California gold rush is framed by the diary and letters of William Swain, who left his wife and family in western New York State, endured a grueling overland journey to California to seek his fortune, only to head back...
...particular, the compromise may have an important impact on PBHA's ability to launch a major fundraising drive for its 100th anniversary in the year...
...ready to send in aircraft with pilots, which can obviously be more dangerous than firing cruise missiles," TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says. "But that is the only way to get rid of the Iraqi surface-to-air defense missiles." The move came in response to an Iraqi missile launched at a U.S. F-16 fighter jet patrolling northern Iraq. U.S. forces were unable to locate the battery to return fire when the Iraqis apparently turned their radar off seconds after firing the missile. In another tweaking of the U.S., Iraqi aircraft also violated the new, expanded no-fly zone...