Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every now & then-in shots of stampeding horses and the handling of human beings against the great outdoors-there are fleeting reminders of Ford's best films. But mostly, Yellow Ribbon is a sad waste of talent and Technicolor...
...Paris, Guy found rich compensations for his drudgery. He was befriended by the great novelist Gustave Flaubert and brought into the master's Sunday literary circle. There he sat at the feet of Europe's literary greats: Turgenev, Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Hippolyte Taine and occasionally Henry James. Zola remembered De Maupassant as "a proud he-man [who] told us dumfounding stories about women, amorous swaggerings that sent Flaubert into roars of laughter...
...Cage's chief claim to novelty is that Lowry has exaggerated it, overplayed it and touched it up with interludes of near-slapstick adventure. His Richard Black of Gorker Street in Cincinnati decides to become a great writer at the age of nine, and on his attic typewriter pounds out stories of Tan the Wonder Dog, of Detective Jim Burdett, of the tenth-round comeback of Battling Ramsey. Later, influenced by Caldwell, Hemingway and Faulkner, he turns out endless stories of prostitutes, gangsters, murderers. In college he edits a highbrow magazine and runs away with the wife (five years...
Inside, La Flamme's is neat without being gaudy. There are no pennants and very few tonic bottles; the woodwork is distinctive, everything is quite plain and simple. La Flamme's retains a great deal from the past, because its two present owners don't believe in major changes and because that's the way its people seem to like things...
...closed box with a button in one wall. The birds must peck at this button at least once every five minutes to be paid off with food. The eager but ignorant pigcon, however, not knowing he will get the same reward with less exertion, will hammer away rapidly for great lengths of time to get his dinner...