Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after all the excesses and errors, considerable power abides. Tolstoy's book may not have been reliable as history or wholly satisfactory as fiction; yet it achieved, in the words of Tolstoy's biographer, Henri Troyat, "the majesty of a second Genesis." Bondarchuk's film catches part of that majesty by showing Mother Russia dressed in the 19th century's bloodstained finery, overshadowing her doomed, noble children. She, and she alone, is worth two trips to the movie house...
...these battles go, it is a good one. The French producer-director team of Jacques Bar and Henri Verneuil shot the film in Mexico, which enabled them to hire a horde of bloodthirsty Indians who really look like bloodthirsty Indians -spraying arrows in all directions and falling off their horses in a veritable Yaqui Armageddon. The villagers' faces are also a pleasure to watch: this is one movie in which the scene stealing is done by the extras. But it is strictly petty larceny...
Sign and symbol of Buffalo's new militancy is its Second Festival of the Arts Today, a 16-day program of cultural events that include premieres of two plays by Edward Albee and an opera by Belgium's Henri Pousseur, the first U.S. performances of new works by Penderecki and Greek-born lannis Xenakis, a new movie by Underground Mogul Jonas Mekas, John Barth reading his new novella aloud, and lectures by City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis and Designer Buckminster Fuller. The whole shebang got under way last week with a display of 300 constructivist paintings and sculptures called...
Anil Nayar captured his second major squash title in two weeks by defeating top-seeded Henri Salaun in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Championships Saturday...
...concept of government service does not exist in Haiti, nor has it ever been a part of Haitian history. Since the early 19th century--when Henri Christophe, the country's first black ruler, drove 20,000 slaves to their deaths in the construction of his massive fortress, the Citadel, high in the mountains over Cap Haitien--the government has existed for its own benefit. It simply does not do things for the people. It does not build highways or schools or hospitals; it does not try to improve agricultural methods or encourage industry; it does not give care...