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...conflicted men with something to prove: Nixon that he was a statesman, not a crook; Frost that he had the gravitas to bring a big man down. So how does that become a movie - one, moreover, that is essentially a making-of feature about a '70s TV show? Howard knew that to convey the particulars of what must seem like ancient history to younger viewers, he needed to move from the long-shot perspective of a play to the interviews' own visual style: alternating medium shots of Frost with blistering close-ups of Nixon. Thus, what was a pageant...
...wonders if at that point Rowling knew she was going to actually be writing those stories. Obsessive planner that she is, she probably did. (See pictures of what J.K. Rowling wrought...
...November survey of legislative fiscal officers included in the report, 18 states are seeing personal income tax come in below target, 26 states are watching sales tax fall below forecast, and 21 states are finding corporate income taxes to be less than what they expected. "State lawmakers knew that revenue growth was slowing, but no one could have foreseen just how dramatically the situation would change in a few short months," the report notes...
...said, ‘You know, there’s never been a biography of Le Corbusier.’ I had been to [Le Corbusier’s] Villa La Roche in France in the 1970s and loved it like few other buildings in my life, but I knew nothing about the man. And when I began to get to know Le Corbusier—in writing his biography—I found that I knew even less about him a few months after I started than when I began. It was like facing the wall of a Swiss...
...spent his academic tenure coming to terms with “the most traumatic period of my life,” when he and his mother escaped Austria for France, where they saw Hitler gradually take power. Forced to flee Paris, he said they “never knew whether we’d be alive...