Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador's civilian-military regime expressed confidence last week that it had succeeded in repelling the vaunted "final offensive" of the country's revolutionary left. José Napoleon Duarte, the shrewd Christian Democratic politician who heads the junta, attributed the left's setback to its failure to win popular support. Duarte offered amnesty to any guerrillas willing to lay down their arms, pledged to move forward on the junta's promises of social reforms and free elections, and toured the provinces like a glad-handing political campaigner...
...former Law Professor Guillermo Ungo, 49, a prominent Social Democrat who served for three months on the original junta that was installed after the overthrow of the military regime in October 1979. In the 1972 elections Ungo was the vice-presidential running mate of centrist Christian Democrat José Napoleon Duarte. A member of the Socialist International, alongside such respected Social Democrats as Willy Brandt, Ungo is said to be planning to tour foreign capitals in an attempt to muster broader democratic support for the revolution...
...were on their feet, cheering. Malraux remembered De Gaulle waving his long arms and crying, "Bravo, magnifique!" It is said that De Gaulle never forgot the images of glory he found that evening in Abel Gance's epic reconstruction of another young soldier's climb to greatness, Napoleon...
Unfortunately, another movie captivated audiences that year: The Jazz Singer. The first talkie totally obscured the late, great silents like Napoleon. The Gance film was also dauntingly long. Though De Gaulle saw a 2½-hour version, the movie Gance originally intended to release was something like six hours in length...
Though various cuts of the film circulated through the years, it was not until last week, in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, that the public got a chance to see a Napoleon that can be regarded as definitive. Close to 4½ hours in length, it is a reconstitution by Kevin Brownlow, a talented English film historian (The Parade's Gone By, Hollywood: the Pioneers), who spent a decade painstakingly collecting bits and pieces of film. It is appropriate, perhaps inevitable, that Brownlow's work should be presented by Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse...