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...sure, has written an interpretative personal guide to cultural history rather than an encyclopedia. Yet many of his appraisals, as well as his choices, seem blandly conventional. Some, in fact, are so woefully inadequate as to suggest that the author relied entirely on secondary sources rather than on firsthand knowledge. In a muddled chapter on dance, George Balanchine, who revolutionized the vocabulary of classical ballet, gets scarcely more space than two more limited choreographers, Leonide Massine and Michel Fokine. The paragraph on Mr. B. mentions none of his landmark ballets but cites instead his glitzy dances for films like...
...Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (once known as the KGB) is starting its own newsmagazine. The first issue bristles with articles about espionage, the Russian mafia and the infamous Lubyanka prison, which some of the editors probably know firsthand. Called SB, the monthly also includes profiles of KGB spies. With pictures...
...only has Foote spent 78 years writing some of the finest screenplays in American cinema, but he also experienced the Depression firsthand. His expertise allowed him to write the script in a mere ten weeks. Sinise also related how he and Foote were able to work cooperatively on the script, creating a shared vision of Steinbeck's work...
...only has Foote spent 78 years writing some of the finest screenplays in American cinema, but he also experienced the Depression firsthand. His expertise allowed him to write the script in a mere ten weeks. Sinise also related how he and Foote were able to work cooperatively on the script, creating a shared vision of Steinbeck's work...
...influence of a Communist philosopher and a painter who regarded Stalin as insufficiently revolutionary. In 1962 Guzman was given a philosophy post at Huamanga University in Ayacucho, where he used his teaching pulpit to indoctrinate students. He was profoundly influenced by Mao's Cultural Revolution, which he witnessed firsthand. "At some point," says journalist Gustavo Gorriti, "he persuaded himself that he was not only a qualified leader but had both a national and a world responsibility." Scholars differ about Guzman's intellectual gifts, but they agree that he was an outstanding organizer who was capable of great charm and attentiveness...