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...possible foolishness, cliché, platitude, and muddlement about mechanical progress and progress in general." Even director Lang, who acquired German citizenship through marriage and emigrated to the United States after the Nazis came into power, expressed dissatisfaction with his work in later years. But the rediscovered material sheds new light on the filmmaker's intentions. The restored version is thought to reveal that most of the movie's perceived shortcomings were caused by the brutal editing Metropolis was subjected to by its American distributor, Paramount, which found it too long and complicated to please a broader audience...
...dusty film cans containing a 16mm copy of the original. Felix-Didier took the material to Berlin to have film experts, amongst them Rother and Wilkening, confirm its authenticity before exclusively allowing the German weekly Die Zeit to make the findings public. Indeed, it has subsequently come to light that a long version of the film was first sent to Buenos Aires back in 1928 at the request of the Terra film distribution company. A film critic named Manuel Peña Rodríguez obtained the reels, selling them in the 1960s to Argentina's national art fund...
...Helms was not above working with apparent enemies, and he was open to a light touch. Madeleine Albright famously convinced him of the wisdom of paying America's U.N. arrears and of supporting the Chemical Weapons Convention. And Bono managed to help change his mind about aid to Africa. Helms remained vigorously protectionist to the end, however, and protected North Carolina's tobacco interests throughout his career with equal vigor. But with more than a few lone dissenting votes in the Senate over 30 years, including his opposition to popular nominations and education bills, he'll be remembered mainly...
...whites, especially in intellect, Twain's tale revolved in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master's baby and, concerned lest the child be sold South, switched him in the crib for the master's baby by his wife. The slave's light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slaveholding class. The master's wife's baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave...
Later that year he published a long essay in the North American Review. It was called "To the Person Sitting in Darkness." The title was a biblical reference. The people in darkness were the unconverted, who had yet to see the blessed light. In fact, Twain pointed out, the problem was that they were seeing things too clearly. After years of exposure to Western colonialism, "the People Who Sit in Darkness ... have become suspicious of the Blessings of Civilization. More--they have begun to examine them. This is not well. The Blessings of Civilization are all right, and a good...