Word: elias
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...mean that Godard, Bergman, Fellini, they were stretching film form. Adult movies now are adult in content: the equivalent of the Elia Kazan movies...
...problems of underdeveloped countries could be solved just by reducing their debt. But this would merely be a gift to their tyrannical leaders. I would like to see Bob Geldof and Bono tackle the issue of reducing the rich world's agricultural subsidies. They are truly unfair. Sergio Elia Abbiategrasso, Italy Power Failure I was pleased to read "The Man Who Wasn't There" by political commentator Alain Duhamel [Nov. 28]. It's rewarding to see that a French intellectual realizes that France is in bad shape and that he has an explanation for the failure of French President Jacques...
...Fall Concert performance impressively kicked off the season for the piano society. While the concert featured a range of musical styles, it all had an air of professionalism. Each performer had a mature stage presence, acknowledging and enticing the entire audience. For example, Peter T. D’Elia ’07, co-president of the HPS, confidently initiated the concert with Sergei Prokofiev’s “Suggestion Diabolique,” a piece more deserving of the title “Overstatement Diabolique.” Beginning with a low bass rumble, it quickly erupted...
When the plane hit Elia Zedeno's building on 9/11, the effect was not subtle. From the 73rd floor of Tower 1, she heard a booming explosion and felt the building actually lurch to the south, as if it might topple. It had never done that before, even in 1993 when a bomb exploded in the basement, trapping her in an elevator. This time, Zedeo grabbed her desk and held on, lifting her feet off the floor. Then she shouted, "What's happening?" You might expect that her next instinct was to flee. But she had the opposite reaction...
...rest took a little longer--about six weeks--not counting production rewrites. But Elia Kazan, then his best friend, and perhaps always his best director, was correct when he wrote that Miller "didn't write Death of a Salesman; he released it." Not a week has passed since the play premiered on Broadway 56 years ago this month when it was not playing somewhere in the world, playing too on our instinctive response to an instinctive work...