Word: beacons
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...admirers called it "the Lubitsch touch"--a deft, vigorous approach to comedy that graced Hollywood romances like Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka and Heaven Can Wait. But before Ernst Lubitsch arrived in the U.S., he had helped establish the infant German cinema as a beacon of sophisticated drama and innovative technique. Kino, the top DVD label for silent films, offers a four-disc sampler of the director's early work, all from 1919 to 1921, including lavish historical dramas (Anna Boleyn), mountain films (The Wildcat, with a very feral Pola Negri) and delightful comedies. Best is The Oyster Princess, "a grotesque...
...Janus was a company that had become a brand - more than that, a beacon. And not just to American moviegoers. In an interview later in his long career, Bergman complained about the shoddy treatment his early films had received in the U.S., with distributors splicing their own footage of nude women into the prints. Then, he said, two young fellows came to see him and showed him and his films the greatest respect. These were the two heads of Janus: Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey...
...primary contributors to the “Yes on 1: Grocery Stores and Consumers for Fair Competition” Committee. The committee’s biggest donor was Stop & Shop, which contributed $2.7 million, according to public filings. Shaw’s, which owns the Star Market on Beacon Street in Somerville and the Shaw’s in Porter Square, contributed $1.57 million, making it the second-largest donor. Combined, the two sides spent about $11.5 million, exceeding the previous record for expenditures on a Massachusetts ballot question—$9.1 million was spent in 1988 over a proposal...
...qualities that have carried Patrick from Dunster House to Beacon Hill might lift him even higher, friends...
...Shaw’s, which owns the Star Market on Beacon Street in Somerville and the Shaw’s in Porter Square, will also probably apply, said Judy Chong, a spokeswoman for Shaw?...