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...first Americans to be accepted by the international Magnum photo agency, photographer Burt Glinn captured several defining moments of the cold war, including Fidel Castro's triumphant march across Cuba and seldom-seen images of daily life in the Soviet Union. Glinn turned his lens on seemingly unlikely subjects, transforming subtleties into iconic moments, as in his 1959 photograph of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev before the Lincoln Memorial. Glinn attributed that shot--his best-known work--to chance. "I was late, and I couldn't get to where everybody else was," he explained. "The most important thing that...
...territory that suited him. The story of a vicious prison guard (Hume Cronyn) and the angry cons under his boot, Brute Force is a sharp evocation of unrest in a totalitarian state. It also set up motifs Dassin would keep returning to. Here, as in Rififi, the lead character (Burt Lancaster) is a criminal who has our sympathy, and at the end, pocked with bullets, must complete one magnificent exploit before life seeps out of him. Visually, here as in Night and the City and Rififi, the murk of men's lives is illuminated only by the beads of sweat...
...CinemaScope frame should have been stood on its side to do justice to his star bulk, physically and psychologically. Beyond the stupendous torso, he gave the impression of thinking out his dialogue before he spoke it; he was a pensive glamour boy. Like fellow postwar stars Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, he'd tense his neck muscles and speak in a sonorous growl that brought authority and menace to his speeches; he could make piety sound robust. But where Lancaster and Douglas were kinetic, bursting with restlessness, Heston was essentially static - not so much statuesque as a statue in some...
Indeed the constitutional issue is vital to the national battle. The Episcopal Church claims that the the agreements binding the rebels' property to it are not just contractual but theological. Therefore, Burt says, for any state government to contravene them "is not just messing with a corporate structure, but messing in a clear and fundamental theological belief." If Judge Bellows decides the Virginia law violates church-state separation it would create a precedent for decisions that would give tremendous authority to Episcopal claims. Should he decide the opposite, it would free seceding churches to appeal under various state laws that...
...Burt says that rather than being about money, the case is about "sacred ground. I have friends buried in some of these churches," he says, as do other more liberal members of the 11 congregations who have decided not to depart Episcopalianism. He adds, "They have friends and children and husbands and mothers and grandparents baptized and buried in these churches." What would it mean if those dead were suddenly buried in a hostile churchyard...