Word: maximalism
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...anyone and lives in isolation. Someone should talk to her son, who's a journalist in Washington--and I have talked to him on several occasions--who's suspicious of the whole outside world including the FBI, Nixon, all these other people. Someone should talk to Maxim Lieber, this literary agent forced to flee the country. (Lieber was accused by Chambers of involvement in the Communist underground...
...brought the festival moments of real majesty. Shot in Russia-in 70-mm. screen size and stereophonic sound-Dersu Uzala is a rather delicate fable about the friendship between a Russian surveyor (Juri Solomine) and the man he employs as a guide. Dersu Uzala (ebulliently and affectionately played by Maxim Munzuk) lives in the forests of eastern Siberia in easy alliance with the natural order. The surveyor, called "the Captain," is a man of science and precision. Dersu is a creature of instinct and superstition...
...role is not a new one: a Germany that is no longer fearful, penitent, and psychologically crushed by the outrages of WW II is cause for concern to neighbors and adversaries. Some are disturbed by the resurgence of German political and economic power and wonder if the bitter Gaullist maxim that "Les Allemands seront toujours les Allemands" will not be true again. At the same time, however, it is welcome to see, in a Western Europe staggered by political mismanagement, divided over the rise of the Left, and weakened by the international economic recession, West Germany represents a haven...
...often succeeded in cheering up the French in those grim years. On the other hand, Actress Danielle Darrieux, shown boarding a train to Germany in Let's Sing, acted in German films and entertained Nazi soldiers in army camps. Even more disturbing to French audiences were shots of Maxim's restaurant, which was jammed with German officers and French businessmen, and of high-living socialites of le tout Paris attending cocktail parties given by Otto Abetz, Germany's wartime Ambassador to France...
Seven floors above Rosenthal's office is a quiet little room that houses "The Museum of the Printed Word." Enshrined there are newspapers ranging from several printed on Guttenberg's press to The Times's front page proclaiming the first moonwalk. For a moment, the maxim "Today's newspaper will wrap tomorrow's fish" seems less believable...