Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul's instinctiveness, his sensual aura, his physical grace and forcefulness, one recognizes the Brando who galvanized Broadway as a young actor in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947, then went on to Hollywood to make a series of six stunning pictures in five years, including The Wild One, On the Waterfront and Julius Caesar. This was the Brando who in the 1950s struck one of the keynotes of a generation with his romantic outlaw swagger, who influenced a whole school of cooler, more introspective actors like James Dean, Paul Newman and Montgomery Clift, and whose blue-jeaned, motorcycle...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA. Cinema I. Streetcar Named Desire, Bach to Bach, 4, 7:15, 9:45, Cinema II Busby Berkeley's Footlight Parade, The St. Louis Blues...
Sargent's proposals also included regional transportation agencies, similar to Boston's MBTA, for other regions within Massachusetts; additions to Boston's subway and streetcar system; and, more tentatively, a rail link between North Station and South Station...
...foremost of these is the Rassemblement Jurassien, whose membership includes more than half the region. The Rassemblemerit's youth group, known as Les Beliers (The Rams), has mounted such protests as tarring Bern streetcar tracks to halt traffic and barricading the entrance to the cantonal legislature. The smaller, more aggressive FLJ has set fire to buildings and dynamited railroads in addition to attacking the ammunition depot at Delémont...
...where a film star assumed a stage role and did it more than justice; she is superb. Williams put Blanche through quite a lot--probably too much to be credible--yet Leigh somehow conveys her tired, neurasthenic hopelessness, her mania for illusion. The errors which were made in translating Streetcar to the screen aren't really forgivable, but Leigh and Brando make them easy to forget...