Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louis XV also dies. After him the deluge-mob shouts, bloodthirsty gutter songs, the Marseillaise. The kettledrummers in the orchestra knock themselves out producing revolutionary thunder. And then the quieter waltzes of Citizen-King Louis Philippe, a brief reprise of glory under Napoleon the Third, World War I -La Madelon, Tipperary, Over There. Three majestic, mournful booms sound from the percussion section; at each one, the lights fade, and at last the palace is plunged once more into darkness...
...maxims (sample: "Where there is aw there is injustice") and then dies; he Machiavellian Prince Vassily (Tullio Jarminati) scarcely gets out of the wings, and the two men struggling for possession of Holy Russia, Kutuzov (Oscar Homolka) and Napoleon (Herbert Lorn), are seen simply as eccentrics-the one, an untidy, drowsy general; the other, a preening peacock who imagines he is an :agle...
...them, still more columns suggested by the exploding flashes of sun light on bayonets. Director King Vidor has a master's hand with the steady, drumbeat assault of infantry battalions and the wild, wind-whipped charge of cavalry. He is even better in tracing the terrible retreat of Napoleon's Grande Armee from Moscow as it drowns in mud, freezes stiff in blizzards, and curls like a dying snake across a winter landscape as desolate as the ninth ring of Hell...
Born in Moscow a few months before Napoleon entered the Czar's tinder capital (1812), Alexander Herzen grew up a bastard aristocrat in a land of serfs, hating the vast sloth of the barbarous empire. Like many another conscience-stricken property owner of his time, he became one of the wild geese of Russia who flapped about Europe hoping that their words would huff and puff down the Byzantine walls of the czardom...
...Lancet touched off another major debate by charging that London Surgeon Sir Henry Thompson had caused the death of exiled Emperor Napoleon III by operating on him for a bladder stone by lithotrity (penetration into the urethra by a pair of forceps) instead of lithotomy (incision into the bladder...