Word: monument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black man, and the lovingly detailed dens ex machina of a cop chewed to death by a threshing machine. Director William Wyler (The Friendly Persuasion), who once knew better, now forces his actors to boom their lines as if they were reading them from the base of a monument. Under his ham hand, each confrontation seems like an incitement to violence rather than understanding...
...panel is also looking into possible ways of guarding Mexican and Guatamalan monument sites...
...gallery and legally "seized" the painting, forbidding the purchaser from taking it home. They were acting on a court order obtained by Marcel de Marchéville, owner of the 478-year-old chateau. When a man's castle is his home -and is classified a national monument to boot-De Marchéville explained, the law gives the owner the right to say who may paint pictures of it. De Marchéville most emphatically had not granted that permission to Buffet...
...popular books sometimes hints of sadism, then Terry Southern is currently playing out a textbook case of masochism. For reasons known only to himself. Joe McGrath, and Peter Sellers (his two collaborators on the screenplay), Southern has reduced his stingingly satirical novelette, The Magic Christian, to a cinematic monument of horedom and banality...
...superintendent of the Channel Islands National Monument, National Park Service, stated that "I defy anyone to go out and find a whale, seal or fish killed by oil. The animals along this coast have lived with oil all their lives, oil from natural seeps...