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...hedged by the ruling decorum of their historical moment. They encourage in us a kind of smugness, a sense that if they were only more psychologically more hip and open (as we are), their lives would be more fully human, a little less cartoonish. These films therefore miss much of Austen's satirical edge - and much of her gently spoken toughness of mind and spirit...
...that would help the cameraman get his shot in time. "I didn't want to hold my bloody fingers below his frame. Paul came running over and said, 'No, no, no, absolutely not! Do it as you would naturally do it! Even if we miss it, we'll know what it was.' As an actor, that's like air. That's somebody saying 'I'm committed to capturing what you do naturally. I don't want you to make any adjustments for my camera...
...full-time job, heading stage companies in Malmo and then Stockholm, directing productions that toured through Europe and later the U.S. and won him the reputation as a great and daring interpreter of the classics. (His productions of Long Day's Journey into Night, with Bibi Andersson, and Miss Julie, with Lena Olin, were triumphs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.) Stage work occupied this indefatigable artist nine months a year; then, on his summer vacations, he would make these movie masterpieces...
...gets only two hours of electricity per day and no one knows when the lights in their area will go out). Abu Ahmad, a taxi driver, described his preparations before the big game against Saudi Arabia: "I bought fuel for my small generator because I don't want to miss the event. Also some refreshments, so me and my family can watch the match together. And we are all ready to celebrate the victory; the flags are ready, cars to drive all around the city, candies to give out, and to show the terrorists that Iraqis are united...
...disease has been removed; but spotting cancer cells left behind after a tumor has been removed is difficult. Now, however, researchers at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have created a molecular "paint" that coats cancer cells so doctors can see the wayward ones that they might otherwise miss...