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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entranceway, where lattices and walls immediately before and behind her head lock her tightly in close shot. A dark wall behind her (the house she's trying to leave) blocks the third side, and her husband runs before her to close off the final avenue of escape, to destroy her freedom. She bites and struggles violently is desperation...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: La Vie Extraordinaire de Lola Montes | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

...center of the frame, bordered by these objects but backed by depth. The ringmaster dominates the scene simply through his bulk and closer position to the camera, but Lola remains independent of him in the background. The ringmaster's commands ("Stop walking like that--stay still") and his speeches destroy the illusion of free action. In a terrifying kiss the ringmaster at last discards for a moment his detached domination of the scene, covers her figure entirely (we see only his back to the camera; the two are exactly aligned in depth). Thus Ophuls reduces to its most brutal terms...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: La Vie Extraordinaire de Lola Montes | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

...have traditionally kept the University aloof from the life of the people of Cambridge. One must be careful, however, that in the process one does not dilute what Curator Bond has called "the raw material" of scholarship. One must be careful in building up a new community not to destroy another, equally important...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Library | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

...union's assistant director, Larry Itliong, predicted that the men who had offered to negotiate "will be subject to scorn from certain growers who are determined to destroy the union at all costs." Indeed, Jack Pandol of Delano, where the strike began, reiterated a familiar argument that Chavez's union does not represent all of the workers in the vineyards. To "sell the workers against their will," he said, is "unmoral, un-Christian and un-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Breakthrough for La Huelgo | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...bellicose far-left parties, above all one whose members were known as Spartacists. Spurred on by the example of the one-year-old Bolshevik success in Russia and supplied by Lenin with propaganda and trained agents, the Spartacists sought and expected total revolution. To achieve it, they tried to destroy all moderate reformers, early and late displaying a fatal blindness to the German right, which in the form of the Nazi party finally destroyed left and center alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Demise of the Moderates | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

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