Word: dreyer
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...PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, Carl Theodor Dreyer...
...Whether the Maid of Orleans was really hearing the voice of God is a question I will not attempt to answer here. But one of the indisputable miracles in the history of film preservation was the rediscovery in 1981 of an original print of Dreyer's silent masterpiece. On its release in 1928 the film was cut by censors and condemned by French nationalists and the Catholic Church, who objected to a Danish Protestant director daring to film the story of the French Catholic saint. Later the negative was destroyed in a fire. Dreyer constructed a new version using...
...even a taste--for rules and regimens. Sofia observed this (and her parents observed her observing it) and then distinguished herself as the looser, less disciplined of the two. Sofia is also the more garrulous, and Alejandra eventually became the more taciturn. "Sofie served as their mouthpiece," says Lisa Dreyer, 39, the girls' mother, "and Alejandra was perfectly happy...
...under your chin, with lumber, which keeps the Yanks talking about the D word. Says Alaskan goal tender Pam Dreyer: "Our team doesn't realize how dirty we probably are as well. We just see how beat up we are after a [Canada] game. The slashing, the bumps-it tends to become not quite a men's style game but as physical as you can get. It comes from how they grew up playing...
...boys teams in Alberta. Canada will rely on special teams and aggressive forechecking to trigger a quick-strike offensive attack. "Hayley Wickenheiser-there are some qualities of hers I don't admire, but the way she drives to the net ... it's like a wave coming at you," says Dreyer...