Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenes that are shot near the sea. Because August and director of photography Jorgen Persson use the sea to represent young Pelle's conquering longings, the shots of the water are thematically noteworthy. Each one is evenly proportioned, with clear divisions of landscape representing Pelle's hopeful horizon...
Indeed, Julia Trotman seems to be smoothly sailing into a horizon of success, having already rounded the mark of sportsmanship that defines a true athlete...
...real estate tycoon Donald J. (for John) Trump does not really loom colossus-high above the horizon of New York and New Jersey. He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President. No matter how farfetched that may be, something about his combination...
...world, Eden after the fall. And Pelle must inevitably lose his innocence as he explores this ruined Paradise, but not his sense that there must be more to life than the evils that incessantly assault his eye, or his inarticulate hope of finding some new Jerusalem beyond his constricted horizon. This maintenance of faith is, indeed, his conquest. And it is given force and poignancy by its contrast with the defeat of his father's ever dwindling dreams...
...blaze of Third Republic splendor, is the world's most opulent opera house. The Paris Opera (Vendome; 187 pages; $75), with text by Martine Kahane, curator of the Opera's library-museum, and musicologist Thierry Beauvert, succinctly recounts the history of the fabled hall, but the real tour d'horizon is provided by Jacques Moatti's photographs, which take the reader from the subterranean lake beneath the mammoth building, where the Phantom of the Opera was said to roam, to the gilded statue of Apollo and his lyre, which soars some 230 ft. above the streets of Paris...