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...premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960. They greeted it with jeers, declaring it deficient as entertainment or art. That cued a righteous backlash of assembled directors (including Italy's Roberto Rossellini) and critics (including Richard Roud of Britain's National Film Theatre), who signed a petition "to express their admiration for the maker of this film." The Cannes Jury, headed by novelist Georges Simenon, sided with the petitioners, giving the film second prize "for a new movie language and the beauty of its images." Informed world opinion followed soon enough. In a 1962 poll by Sight & Sound magazine...
...they had vomited on themselves. (He also gave Vitti red hair). It was all in aid of showing the already polluted city through the eyes of the schizophrenic wife and mother played by Vitti. "I have to put into the landscape the colors needed," Antonioni said, "to express a certain state of mind...to violate, so to speak, this reality, to adapt it to the purposes of my story...
...supplies some 400,000 shops, restaurants and hotels around the world--including Gap, McDonald's and Burger King--with songs tailored to reflect their identity. "What we're trying to capture is a brand's essence," says Bob Finigan, Muzak's vice president of product and marketing. "We express the intangibles of a brand's identity--their company values, their position in the market--through the emotional power of music...
Although--or perhaps because--I manufacture opinions for a living, I am always amazed at the things people are willing to express opinions about. Is the "surge" working? Is there likely to be a terrorist attack in the next few months? Are "most of the insurgents in Iraq today ... under the command of Osama bin Laden"? These are not matters of opinion. The correct answer may be unknown (e.g., the success of the surge), or it may be known perfectly well (e.g., bin Laden does not control most of the Iraqi insurgents), but one thing the correct answer...
...more credit for, you know, being the puppeteer than I am. I express my opinion. Honestly, I'm not the decision maker.' ELIZABETH EDWARDS, wife of former Senator John Edwards, responding to speculation that she is a controlling force behind her husband's presidential-campaign decisions...