Word: menzel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. Czech Director Jiri' Menzel's film is a series of con tradictions: a tragic comedy, a peaceful war movie, a success story of a failure...
CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. Czech Director Jiří Menzel's poignant film is a series of contradictions: a tragic comedy, a peaceful war movie, a success story of a failure...
CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. In this story of a young man beginning his working life as a train dispatcher, Czech Director Jiff Menzel mixes the real and the surreal, ribaldry and pathos, comedy and tragedy, yet keeps the film squarely on the track...
...this point, the story abruptly changes its mood. The dispatcher, it turns out, is also a member of the underground, a fact that leads to an explosive and tragic finale. Director Jifi Menzel mixes the real and the surreal, ribaldry and pathos, comedy and tragedy-yet keeps the movie on the track all the way. Much credit goes to Actors Somr and Neckar, who straight-facedly exemplify Gogol's view that "what is utterly absurd happens in the world...
...addition to the known natural phenomena mentioned by the Air Force to explain sightings, scientists suggest that there are probably still unknown or unverified atmospheric effects that could account for most of the unidentified apparitions. Astronomer Donald Menzel, former director of the Harvard College Observatory, believes that atmospheric refractions sometimes both magnify and bend the light from bright stars, causing them to resemble large and erratically moving disks. Electrical Engineer Philip Klass, an editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology, speculates that many UFOs may be a form of ball lightning generated by an electric corona that sometimes occurs on high...