Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admission, Chekhov had a hard time doing without the conventional pistol shot, which was an important feature of every one of his plays through The Three Sisters. But here, for the first time, the pistol shot takes place way off in the distance. And only in his final play, The Cherry Orchard, is there no pistol--instead we hear the forlorn sound of a far-off axe chopping a tree as the curtain falls...
...getting a fix on her unraveling character. "There have been so many story versions that I am still trying to figure out what kind of woman I am," she complains. Last week, for instance, Lana had to shoot the sixth chapter, though the third chapter still lacks a final script...
...Bethlehem Steel for preliminary estimates, assuming that those two giants alone had the capacity to fill such a huge order. Both companies sent in estimates and draft contracts calling for a total charge of just under $82 million. Two years passed before the Authority sent each company the final specifications for a binding bid. Then U.S. Steel raised its bid to $122.2 million, and Bethlehem came in at $118.1 million...
After this nadir, the concert got under way in earnest. The last two movements of the Mozart went quite well. They chose exciting tempi and played with admirable feeling and expression. The final Allegro was particularly pleasing with a nice rhythmic drive, and exactness of nuance, and an attention to phrasing which deserve praise...
...Jannings is forced to crow, we see Dietrich watching him, for the first time in close-up. As she sees his humiliation her cynicism takes on a new depth echoed in the final images of her singing. Jannings charges offstage to kill her; her flight is shot in high-angle, expressing the degree of freedom in even Jannings' most desperate action. Indeed, Sternberg cuts away to a doorway rather than showing Jannings being strait-jacketed. Later released, he returns to his old school desk to die the death of all Expressionist heroes. But Sternberg ends the film with shots...