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...patriarchal society are science, reason and law," Miss Shevey says, "and in a matriarchal society they are art, magic, spir ituality and mystery. These are the qualities that women could bring to films." Critic Shevey maintains that the image of women in movies has hardly improved since D.W. Griffith's damsels in distress, and is still stuck in the axis between sex object and wifemother figure. Even in the new, "liberated" films, s he says, women are depicted as cooks and baby makers, "either imperiled or hard as nails...
MORE THAN Hamlet and more than Lear, Macbeth and the movies are made for each other. Of the great Shakespearean tragedies it is the darkest, the bloodiest, the most physical and most unearthly. Macbeth has everything--slaughter, madness, treachery, revenge, ghosts and witches, and at one time or another, Griffith, Welles and Kurosawa have each taken a turn at its adaption. It is an invitation to extravagance...
Abraham Lincoln. D.W. Griffith's first talking moving picture (1933), with Walter Huston as the Man. NET Playhouse Biography, Feb. 10, 8:30 p.m. Channel...
...model would be less important to the DOD than the understanding of information gathering and exchange for crisis-decision-making. This understanding would not be tied to the particular situation but would have a broad usage at the DOD and other government agencies as well. The analysis of Professor Griffith's collection of documents on comparative communism would be valuable in itself but even more valuable would be a technique for semantic analysis and thematic recognition by computers. The CIA, for example, collects enormous amounts of raw intelligence data from which meaningful patterns must be inferred. The sheer bulk...
Dartmouth made squash headlines Saturday when they topped Williams, 5-4. The Indians, traditionally a mediocre Ivy squad, beat a team that finished third behind Penn and Harvard at the Intercollegiates last spring, and the Ephs are led by Ty Griffith, ranked second in national collegiate play...