Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arch is very deep: the iron points of the sinister descending gate might be met at any depth. But the arch is also an intimate whispering arch: a murmur spoken into any of the grooves may be clearly heard in the same groove at the opposite side of the doorway...
...returned to the bakery five days later, but it was morning and an iron grating barred entry to the stall. The wooden sign now hung over the doorway. A few leftover baked goods lay on glass counter tops, and the huge photo portrait of Baby Watson, the mystical money-maker, still stared out over the deserted stall, a strange combination of Guru Maharaji and the Gerber Baby Food cherub, the latest formula for the alchemist's gold of advertising...
...eyes of the people who experienced it--narrow and distorted as their vision may be--then we will have made a window in time. If we can recreate the context in which these person's decisions, beliefs and feelings were meaningful then we will have made that window a doorway through which we can enter the past and write histories that are faithful to their subjects...
...simply ignored. One evening, from our broken picture window, we watched the sun disappear behind the hills up the river. Suddenly, a drunk man broke the stillness, driving his Skidoo wildly along the muddy riverbank, shouting to himself and to his wife who stood surrounded by children in the doorway of their house. The Skidoo lurched over the bank and down to where a boat was tied to a log. There he threw it and himself into the boat, announced that he was off for La Romaine (a primarily Indian town 150 miles south along the coast) and headed down...
...most wonderful mystery movies ever made. Orson Welles plays a blackmarket kingpin who is killed in an accident (or is he?) and Joseph Cotton plays the American writer who investigates the death. The story is hard to beat, the little touches (watch for the cat in the doorway) are brilliant, and Welles is Welles. The "Third Man Theme" is a catchy little accordian tune that tops off a great flick...