Word: misting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This from a man who holds no special fondness for the industry today. (Before directing, Glimcher produced Gorillas in the Mist and, less happily, The Good Mother.) "Hollywood is a battleground," he says. "The New York art world is, by and large, still a community. It moves as a single organism with many legs. People are here because they are in love with art and want a life...
...arrogance deserted me one rainy evening in my junior year. A few weeks before I'd written of finding a neighbor bludgeoned on the sidewalk near my home a year earlier. As the mist distorted the light on Mt. Auburn Street, I met a friend of mine from freshman year, walking with her father...
...were introduced, and my friend's father thanked me for writing about his sister's death. His eyes collected the mist around us and made it tangible. Only then did I realize the connection between the death I witnessed and the life of my friend. My emotional self-assurance dissolved in a fog of shame...
Nevertheless, Goudge does not try to disguise that her artistic aspiration is to write popular fiction as opposed to great literature. She calims to have been inspired to write by a third cousin, Elizabeth Goudge, who wrote fiction with titles such as Towers in the Mist and Green Dolphin Lane which were widely read in Victorian England...
...Give me a child when he is seven," Michael Apted might say, "and he's mine for life." In 1963 Apted, later a movie director (Gorillas in the Mist) but then a researcher for Granada TV, helped corral 10 British seven-year-olds and expose their elfin dreams and class prejudices in interviews for the documentary 7 Up. Every seven years since, he has returned to see how his young charges are faring. This time, in 35 UP, they are mostly a dour lot, soldiering edgily on, recounting their promotions and sackings, their new children and divorces. The trio...