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...Arcadian State, for instance, has references to early Hesiodic Greece coexisting with a temple based on Stonehenge; and the climactic paintings of The Consummation of Empire and Destruction are the kind of eclectic cast-of- thousands fantasies that would later be put on film by D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille...
...lose the courts of law. On Friday Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's game plan was thrown into the air when a judge dissolved a 23-member grand jury that was considering whether there was enough evidence to try Simpson on murder charges. Superior Court Judge Cecil J. Mills, in response to an unusual request from Simpson's attorney, Robert Shapiro, concluded that some jurors may have been tainted by exposure to the deluge of publicity...
...Cecil Bykerk, Mutual of Omaha's chief actuary, regards the outcome as inherently unfair. "A younger person might be paying twice or more, as a percentage of income, as a mature person," he says. Salvatore Curiale, New York State's superintendent of insurance, counters that the new scheme is "an unqualified success...
...Lewis, who was reared in England yet carries an Irish passport, there is a strong streak of Eire: the tale-spinning, the mordant thoughtfulness, the smile in his soft voice that lightens his remarks with a puckish irony. His father Cecil was the Irish-born poet laureate of England. His mother is actress Jill Balcon, whose Baltic Jewish father, Sir Michael Balcon, ran Ealing Studios, Britain's renowned comedy factory. Daniel's sister Tamasin, four years older, is a documentary filmmaker and writer on food...
...using the actual factory Schindler operated, even the apartment he once inhabited. The scenes in which the Jews are forced into the ghetto or endure the torments of camp life are shot documentary style, with hand-held cameras. As Spielberg says: "I didn't want to direct off a Cecil B. DeMille crane. I wanted to do more CNN reporting with a camera I could hold in my hand." To enhance this effect, he eschewed storyboards for only the third time in his 14 films. Instead in some sequences he filled several streets with hundreds of extras, rehearsed them extensively...