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Today, such an apologetic defense of First Amendment rights would likely be taken as irony or outright sarcasm. But in 1915, when director D.W. Griffith took on a social, moral, and artistic crusade of propagandistic historical revisionism through film it was taken very, very seriously. So much so that the film grossed $18 million, an extraordinary sum for its time, setting a box office record that remained uncontested until 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...Zipcar ad put it, "350 hours/year having sex. 420 looking for parking. What's wrong with this picture?" In Boston, New York and Washington, almost all of Zipcar's 32,000 customers are within a seven-minute walk of a company car. "Our members are savvy," says CEO Scott Griffith. "They don't need to own a car to enjoy mobility...
...enough for a caucasian actress. It happened that Anna May Wong was Chinese, at a time when East Asians were no more likely to become Hollywood stars than someone from India or Africa. She knew, from seeing The Perils of Pauline serials with the villainous Wu Fang, or D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms, about a sensitive, opium-sotted "Chink," that Chinese were portrayed in films as notorious criminals or emotional cripples, and that, anyway, they were almost always played by white actors. Hollywood may as well have had a sign on the studio gate reading No Chinese Need Apply...
...died fighting the blaze. The men didn't live in the fire-affected area but, like many others, had volunteered to help. Another friend of the Holmans has lost her two grandchildren, three-year-old Star Borlase and two-year-old Jack, who died with their other grandmother, Judy Griffith, in a car near the Borlase farm. Two other children, 11-year-old Zoe Russell-Kay and her 13-year-old brother Graham, died with their mother Jodie Russell-Kay in their vehicle after they fled their house and, perhaps blinded by the smoke, crashed and were caught...
...assembled from cars, trains and ferries and led like a festive procession into the respective halls, thanks to the pure staircase solution?" With his winning entry for the Sydney Opera House in 1957, the 38-year-old Dane proved to be as ambitious a choreographer of spectacle as D.W. Griffith or Cecil B. DeMille. Leaving behind the rush and grind of the city, opera-goers would be transported up a 100-m terraced plateau, into gilded pleasure domes worthy of Kubla Khan, with cavernous interiors of blue and silver, red and gold, transporting audiences into ecstasy. But when Utzon left...