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...began at the peep show. One of the first movies -- an 1890s record of the belly dancer Fatima's dance -- stoked demands for its suppression. As the American cinema grew from fairground fad to worldwide obsession, it seasoned its content for the broadest tastes: no nudity, no naughty words, no violence. And, until the case of The Miracle in 1952, no constitutional cloak. In that year, ruling on Roberto Rossellini's parable of a peasant woman (Anna Magnani) impregnated by a bearded stranger (Federico Fellini) whom she believes to be St. Joseph, the Supreme Court ruled that films were...
INDEED, BEGINNING IN THE 1890s,landscapes came to dominate the Russian artisticvocabulary. According to Frierson, the land itselfbecame the subject of the paintings, while thepeasant became only one element in the broaderimage of the Russian countryside. Realism has beenabandoned in these paintings for a newromanticism, an idealized vision of naturestylistically closer to the middle ImpressionistsYet the land was Russian, even if the techniquewas French, and the works from this period arestill distinctly Russian in character...
Academics also played a big role in his life as Jewett graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa after writing a thesis on diplomatic history. His topic was negotiations among the great powers in the 1890s. Jewett received additional diplomatic education from his work on the precursor of the model...
...surrounding country is some of the handsomest in New England, but there is a scuffling, head-down quality to South Main Street, out by the Legion hall. It is just the place for a brewery, though the last of the old breweries in Vermont went out in the 1890s, as far as anyone knows. There is one brewery in New Hampshire, the big, mass-market Anheuser-Busch operation in Merrimack. And only one very small outfit in Massachusetts, an enterprising Boston pub called the Commonwealth Brewing Co. Ltd., which turns out a variety of sturdy ales and porters for consumption...
...1890s, having the entire faculty vote on disciplinary cases was not a particularly successful system. Half of all faculty meetings were spent on disciplinary cases and the growing size of the faculty had threatened to jeopardize the personal nature of the process, according to published histories...