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Though he fell out of favor with critics--and the public--in the 1960s, French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directed nearly 50 films during his career, including critical successes such as L'Eternel Retour and Dieu a Besoin des Hommes. In 1954 he was famously felled by a scathing review in Cahiers du Cinéma by critic (and later filmmaker) François Truffaut, who accused Delannoy of clinging to an antiquated and pedestrian style. Yet in 1946, before Truffaut's time, Delannoy earned a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his most notable work, La Symphonie Pastoral...
...economy, globalization has been accompanied by a surge in xenophobia. The phenomenon may have taken a graphically violent form in South Africa recently, but even in Europe the surge of populist xenophobia since the 1990s has propelled previously fringe groups such as the British National Party, Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front in France, neo-Nazis in Germany and the assassinated Pim Fortuyn's eponymous party in the Netherlands into the political mainstream. Last October, the Swiss People's Party won the largest single share of the vote - 29% - in a general election using a campaign poster depicting three...
...UNUSUAL WARDROBE: Zohan: Tank top and jean shorts Borat: Gray suit, tie Jesus: Purple polyester bowling suit...
...Fifty years later, in the fall of 2007, Harvard undergraduates beginning their studies of the humanities or social sciences cracked open the works of Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, and Michel de Montaigne. Bending the spines of heavy books purchased from the Coop or checked out of Lamont library, students learned about the working-class struggle through the words of Karl Marx, and perused Niall Ferguson’s “Empire†and Christopher A. Bayly’s “Birth of the Modern World†in order to understand the reality...
...chants of "McCain 08,""Bastards," and "Denver," an echo of their hopes that Clinton would take her case all the way to the Democratic National Convention to be held in August in Denver. After the meeting adjourned, women sat on the floor sobbing, while others, like Pennsylvania voter Betty Jean King, 60, a retired teacher from Shippensburg, ranted to television cameras: "If it's not Hillary, I'm voting for McCain. 17 million people voted for Hillary and I'm telling you many of them are going to defect...