Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel, she realizes that Christ was a genius, of course, but no more so than Mohammed or Buddha or Machiavelli, so the best thing to do is go out and get a job. Another heroine (as we learn from her "New Angles on Life notebook") is mildly inspired by a sermon, but finds her salvation in a brass bed with an old friend who happened to be in church that morning. It's good to dismiss it all like that, but don't admit the symbolism--unless it's at the artistic level, of course. For a while you actually...
ELLEN: Not bad. You got the notebook, Steph? This is fourth floor, let's see, east end. (They walk up a staircase and approach a door with a name...
...School, each pair had to describe how they would have gone about solving their crime and give a reasonable explanation of it. Parker A. Glass, of the Department of Legal Medicine and chairman of the session, sat at the head of the table, a large loose-leaf notebook with information on all the cases opened before him. He cross-examined the detectives as they presented their theories, asking an unexpected question or pointing out some obscure, overlooked detail...
Boudin's precise renderings rarely filled more than a 25-in. by 32-in. canvas. Once he had thought he would do larger works. In 1859 he wrote in his notebook of feeling "freed somewhat of timidity; I shall try some broad paintings, things on a big scale and more particular in tone." But he never really managed it, and it is probably just as well. Art needs its tiny jewels as well as its grand masters...
...catalogue of the scenes and moments in the first half that reveal Hitchcock's genius would fill a notebook. The fact remains that if Alfred Hitchcock filmed the telephone book, anyone seriously interested in film would have to see it. If the total impression of Torn Curtain is disappointing, it is still one of the most fascinating American films in recent years. Anyway, it's Hitchcock's fiftieth film. Which makes it an event of some importance no matter how you look...