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Five days later, in nearby Laurel, Negro Farmhand Howard Wash was found guilty of murdering his white employer. But the jury failed to agree on the punishment. Under Mississippi law, his sentence became life imprisonment...
Pageants were enormously popular. In Philadelphia Charles Willson Peale whipped up a magnificent triumphal Peace Arch in 1783, groaning with symbols. It was to be illuminated by skyrockets and 1,000 candles, but it caught fire. Undaunted, Peale invented "an ingenious mechanism" for dropping a laurel wreath on the brow of George Washington, who had to put up with that sort of thing wherever he went. The launching of the Constitution was staged "with marine background scenery bordering on the marvelous, with a final climactic picture of Niagara Falls." In Americana and Elutheria Benjamin Franklin stepped out of lightning-forked...
With the first spring breezes came politics. The hardy old perennial stuck a few tentative shoots above ground, some day to bear laurel or nettle, plums or raspberries. In peacetime or war, fair weather or foul, politics would still grow lushly over the U.S. countryside...
...comedy foundation was solid after he had worked as cameraman on 60 or more Laurel & Hardy and Harry Langdon shorts. One of thorn had an unforgettable sequence: Laurel & Hardy delivering a piano up an impossibly long, steep set of narrow outdoor steps. Says Stevens: "The first theater audience that saw it cheered so hard at the finish that the house had to run the two-reeler over again before the customers would look at the feature...
...general, we pay a good deal of attention. But there's another criterion which has become taken for granted to such an extent that it gets trampled under foot without our even noticing. And that is that the critic has no business addressing his little barbs or tossing his laurel wreaths toward an audience which functions on a different intellectual or social level than he does...