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...could have argued that the film proceeded so slowly because every image was so beautifully composed, so full of visual drama, that it was worth contemplating as one would a Piero della Francesca portrait. The dimensions of the movie screen, Antonioni suggested, have less in common with the stage proscenium than with the frame of a painting. Films are pictures on a wall, and Antonioni was one of the first directors working within the commercial cinema to make museum movies. One didn't watch his films so much as gaze at them - at a duration determined...
Will there come a day, graduating seniorAnthony Della Calce wonders, when people see him proudly wearing a Virginia Tech cap without immediately thinking of death and sorrow...
...than four out of five said they would volunteer for his campaign, compared to 48 percent of Giuliani’s supporters and 38 percent of McCain’s. The survey, in its twelfth year, reflects Obama’s widespread popularity on campuses, IOP Polling Director John Della Volpe said. According to Della Volpe, Obama prevails among college students because he is “more in line with young people about the global community”—referring to young pollees’ confidence that the UN and international cooperation are more effective means...
...theory that can actually be quantified by Internet data: shock-jock Howard Stern's campaigning for show-spoiler site Vote for the Worst, started in 2004 "to support voting for the entertaining contestants who the producers would hate to see win on American Idol," according to site creator Dave Della Terza, who teaches a course in reality television at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn...
...That thought lands us in and around the Tuscan city of Arezzo, staring at the masterpieces of native son and inveterate traveler Piero della Francesca, who, after centuries of being overlooked, is now considered one of the masters of the early Renaissance. Art historian Carlo Bertelli says Piero was appreciated at the time for his innovative way with perspective, but he is now also prized for his "enigmatic" touch. "He is a painter of enormous clarity, but also of great reflection," says Bertelli. "You could say that it was necessary that he 'slept' in these centuries so that he could...