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...Woman that he is calling his first U.S. production Another Man, Another Woman. It is not, however, a sequel to his soft-focus romance between a French racing driver and a young widow. This time the story takes place in the American West in the 1870s. A French immigrant wife (Genevieve Bujold) arrives by stagecoach in dusty Arizona. After cleaning up in a steaming pay tub (a cold bath costs 50 and a hot bath 100), she meets and becomes involved with a young veterinarian (James Caan). LeLouch says he nearly called it A Man, A Woman...
Dragonflies and Chic. Such serpentine curves had been discovered by the French in Japanese art: the first shops for japonaiserie had been set up in Paris in the 1870s. Moreover, the designers of the Belle Epoque seized on the reverence for ephemeral nature in Japanese art, importing a fresh iconography of fugitive things: mist, shivering grasses, winding shoots, morning glories and insects. Nowhere is their passion for the impalpable better expressed than in the dragonfly lamp, each wing vibrating with red and amber glass, designed for Tiffany by Clara Driscoll around...
...part of last week's ceremonies, President Ford opened an antique safe that had been filled with mementos of the 1870s. The contents - autographs, photographs, inkstands, a book on temperance - limned a more circumscribed and monochrome period. For the 2076 Tricentennial, many Americans are cramming time capsules with different ingredients, including credit cards, pick et signs and whole automobiles...
...writer's case, words - to bring forth a new birth of consciousness. The pain is the passion. If the work lives, the birth is successful. From the minutiae of the constricted world Dickinson knew - tending her father, cooking, the muffled gossip of Amherst, Mass., in the 1870s and '80s - she built a bridge to the transcendental mystery of existence. At her best, she succeeded. What makes Julie Harris' performance so moving is that she perceives and conveys these moments of transcendence...
...theoretical models of both the Chicago and Harvard schools are based on neoclassical economics. This approach is the result of the neoclassical revolution which occurred in the 1870s and introduced many new, basic concepts radically changing economics...