Word: naturedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Communism promises everything to the proletariat. The great theoretical Marxist engine, after all, repairs the dread alienation of "heartless" capitalism by restoring the means of production to the workers. Well, as the Polish emigre writer Leszek Kolakowski, an apostate Marxist, has said, that "has been the greatest fantasy of our...
Will's despair can be traced in part to a trick of memory. He realizes suddenly that the hunting accident he was involved in as a young boy was no such thing. His father, a thunderous Mississippian straight out of Faulkner, had vainly tried to kill both Will and...
Miller had to suffer good-natured abuse from teammates on the ride home who chanted in unison. "Three cheers for Lance Miller. Three cheers for Lance Miller. He would have been in it. If he'd broken a minute."
In a succinct commentary, Brownlow manages to illuminate the crucial aspects of his story, from the revolutionary impact of The Great Train Robbery in 1903, to Hollywood's World War I boom era, to the arrival of Will Hays' censorship. Most of the time the story is told...
It enters a milieu, that of working-class life, that the movies often bypass. Thomas Hacklin lives in Buffalo and works for a tire factory. His car is dilapidated, and the house his wife and kids inhabit (he is divorced) is, at best, humble. Life for him is a few...