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...processed film to be bathed in a "particularly soft light" that Muggeridge likened to love, "luminous, like the halos artists have seen and made visible round the heads of saints." While the episode was celebrated worldwide, cameraman Ken Macmillan had a down-to-earth explanation: he had used a brand-new kind of film from Kodak that was particularly sensitive. Nonetheless, visitors to the hospice noticed a beatific glow that surrounded the sisters ministering to the dying...
...realize, if he has not already, that his father possesses what is arguably the most noble of human traits: the courage of his own convictions. Would that every graduate could be so fortunate as to be given these fine words as a parting gift instead of a brand-new BMW. KIM CARLSON New York City...
Hughes begins his series by examining how the brand-new United States sought a national visual style that would express its values. It found a model in the ancient republics of Greece and Rome. Classicism, says Hughes, gave the country "a language of power and authority and continuity to the past, even though it was so new." The man who adapted classical architecture to the American Arcadia was Thomas Jefferson, whose home, Monticello, Hughes visits. Standing amid the emblems of Jefferson's artistic and scientific achievements, Hughes cites him as the "one person from all the dead Americans that...
...lived in for 30 years or so. "There is," he observes, "an inherent conflict in preservation between conservation, which means you keep everything that's original and try not to have it deteriorate further, and restoration, which is the other extreme. If you restore everything and make it look brand-new, you rob the place of a sense of history. You have to be careful not to get stuck at either extreme. It's all about memory, and memory is not science...
...PAPA'S BRAND-NEW...