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...attracted to the flexibility and myriad opportunities a large, stellar school like Harvard has to offer. There are open doors swinging in every direction, all of which any student can walk through with a bit of application. Yes, there will be competition, but there's also a big wide doorway just waiting for you. But sometimes there are too many doors...
...Sami Salman were Tanzim gunmen. They went to this building on the edge of the village of Kafr Khalil to shoot at the side of the main road into Nablus. The tank's return fire was a direct hit. Adil straightens up and leans against the remains of the doorway. "We are fighting them with stones and old guns. They are fighting with planes, tanks and missiles," he says. "But whatever power they have, we will win, with God's help." As he speaks, the old man notices that where his hand rests on the stone wall, there...
...embraced his college roommate Tommy Lee Jones, and the two men took their own quiet turn around backstage together, winding up at the side portal from which Gore was meant to make his entrance. The Secret Service had hung a blue curtain blocking the crowd's view through that doorway, but there was a gap at the top, and Gore could just make out his wife on the Jumbotron. Tipper was talking about her father-in-law Al Sr., and his kindly face appeared on the giant screen one more time. Then came the pictures of the couple's four...
When Count Alexis Vronsky first sees Anna in Anna Karenina, she is scanning the crowd from the doorway of a train car. The first encounter between Antoine and Angele, the protagonists of Venus Beauty Institute, also occurs in a train station-a subway station in Paris. In the book, Anna Karenina's "shining gray eyes rested with friendly attention on Vronsky's face, as though she were recognizing him, and then promptly turned away to the passing crowd, as though seeking someone." In the movie, Angele runs after a train and screams at one of its passengers, "you dumped...
...returning to direct only a few episodes of TV westerns). Speaking at the Cinematheque Française in 1985, Lewis enlightened aspiring filmmakers with tales of his imaginative triumphs over pathetically low budgets. He told his production designer on a foreign espionage drama to concentrate on building a giant doorway so large and impressive that most of the action could be set around it, avoiding construction of tacky cardboard backdrops. He chose to juice up an incredibly staid courtroom scene in the luridly titled "Secrets of a Co-Ed" (1942) by combining a number of shots into one intricate...