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...individualistic. It is the virtuosity of the director. The drama of Potemkin is of an artist making a masterpiece out of his raw materials as we watch. Motion is created before our eyes, from still shots, as in the montage on the steps, or the three shots of stone lions whose juxtaposition makes the Czarist lion seem to stand up and roar. The very astringency of the proletariat form seemed to bare, as in any stylized form, the sinews of the artist's mind. It is Eisenstein himself, finally, who is the hero of this "drama without a hero...
...only safe haven during Europe's dangerous Dark JL Ages and beyond was the castle, with its great moat, drawbridge and armed men glaring from the turrets. The era seethed with raids and counterraids, kidnapings and ransoms. No traveler was secure. Even Richard Coeur-de-Lion, King of England, so feared capture as he headed home from the Crusades in 1192 that he scuttled across central Europe in assorted disguises. No luck. Seized by Austria's Duke Leopold, poor Richard spent a year in captivity before his weary subjects began to cough up 150,000 silver marks-twice...
...proposal to Harvard is the plan to limit tax deductions on donations of property to the original cost, not the market value of the property. Harvard usually receives $4 or $5 million annual market value in stocks each year, although one exceptionally large donation boosted this to $16 mil- lion last year. In addition, donors give the University small amounts of real estate--usually less than $50,000 worth in a year--and an undetermined amount of art works, books...
...Lion captain Roger Walaszek led the assault with seven points and by the time the Crimson had regained enough equilibrium to call time out, it was behind, 62-42. Harvard never got close again...
...called value-added taxes, or VAT, a complex substitute for sales and excise taxes. Washington contends that VAT penalizes American exports and gives a substantial price advantage to many European goods shipped into the U.S. Concern has heightened since the U.S. foreign trade surplus shrank from almost $8 bil lion in 1964 to $726 million...