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THROUGHOUT the opening of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith director Fred Schepisi continually dissects static tableaus. The camera suddenly cuts from the scene at hand to a minute corner of the picture: In the lapse of conversation suddenly one is looking at a swarm of termites on a windowsill. A domestic portrait gives way to an extreme closeup of a rusty knife cutting through bread--the sound suddenly amplified and grating. Idyllic farm panoramas are interrupted with scenes of chicken roosters being slaughtered, huge shears go through sheep's wool, the camera slowly absents itself from a sermon and creeps...
People had to use home-mixed brews until inventors at the Blacksmith Shop--near the present site of the coffee shop--mixed the first batch...
Longfellow, by now and old man, was not scheduled to speak. But when the governor sent word at the last minute that he could not attend, the author of "The Village Blacksmith" agreed to say a few words. "I feel very much as I suppose some of you do when you are suddenly called upon in your classroom," he told them. After thanking the schoolchildren for the gift to hin of a rocking chair, Longfellow concluded with a statement that can only be described as philosophical: "I am afraid that 50 years hence, this day and all that belongs...
Square, squat and dour-faced, Kania is the only top Polish official of solely peasant stock. Raised in a village in southeastern Poland, he trained as a blacksmith, but in 1945 went to work for the Communist Party. In 1968, although he had little formal education, Kania was appointed head of the Central Committee's administrative department, where he ran the party machinery according to the wishes of the Politburo and the party secretaries. To satisfy so many constituencies, as he evidently did, Kania needed considerable bureaucratic skill-and the political finesse of a big-city mayor. As security...
...This was a country in adolescent turbulence. No wonder, then, that so many Australian novels (and now films) are tales of young nonconformists seeking liberation through maturity or anarchy. In The Getting of Wisdom, a bright upstart triumphs over the snobbery of her classmates; in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, an engaging half-caste succumbs to racism and flails into psychopathy...