Word: napoleonism
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...Death Valley (the casualty rate approaching Stroheim's for Greed, the most famous horror story of Death Valley's filming), suggest strongly that the first American film-makers willingly demanded a verisimilitude unknown to most of today's artists. Brownlow quotes the great French director Abel Gance (La Roue, Napoleon...
...downfall raises me to infinite heights."-Napoleon after Waterloo...
...night games between pro football teams. Also in the works is a project to animate still pictures of boxers so that the computerized fights can be moved to television. "And we could do more than sports," says Woroner. "Much more! Wars! Hitler's Germany against the Roman Empire! Napoleon versus Alexander the Great! How about election campaigns? George Washington versus Franklin Roosevelt! Abraham Lincoln against George Wallace! And debates? Socrates takes on Karl Marx! Thoreau against Jean-Paul Sartre...
...conflict with the riot of gilded tassels, leaves, garlands and mythological heads. In politics, the warring desires for republican simplicity and kingly extravagance proved even more difficult to resolve, and after the French Revolution the curios made for kings descended to commoners. A Jacques-Louis David crayon drawing of Napoleon's mother, done before 1800, is a trenchant comment. Beneath a flashy nouveau riche Empire headdress, the Corsican dowager wears an expression of smug pride...
Despite such mock doubts about the Minister's sanity, the National Assembly last week approved his plan, although only after a highly emotional debate. The program adds up to the most sweeping revision of higher education in France since Napoleon established the imperial university system in 1808. Aimed at preventing a renewal of the kind of riots that shut down the universities last spring, Faure's program also attacks the bureaucratic rigidity of the highly centralized system. His reform bill, which will not take full effect for at least a year, specifically indicts the "inhuman dimensions," "immobility," "isolation...