Word: abell
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Cinema Europe's hero is Abel Gance, who in the 1927 Napoleon harnessed an epic delirium unmatched before or since. "Here," Gance said, "was a new alphabet for the cinema." But with the entry of talking films that year, the language of silents became as obsolescent as Yiddish. Films got chatty, conservative; they still are. Most modern directors don't know Gance's "alphabet." They can barely spell...
...such eternal parables. The prodigal and the faithful son, the favorite and the outcast, the firstborn and the younger are characters as old as the Bible that resound in every family today. And here, with surprising pangs of recognition, are variations on themes that began with Cain and Abel...
...remake can be a welcome sight to modern audiences. Alexander Chirkov's "Genesis of Genesis" attempts to accomplish this with the Biblical story of Genesis. The play is a series of episodes from the first 22 chapters of Genesis, including all the most famous: the Creation, the murder of Abel, the Flood and Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac...
...King (Gorton, Abel...
...many in the wrestling world were aware of the unstable nature of Du Pont, who had as many as 90 young athletes in his charge at one time, is not clear. Stan Abel, Schultz's former coach at the University of Oklahoma, claims he had tried to warn Schultz away from Foxcatcher but won't say why. Now Abel says simply, "I wish he'd taken my advice...