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...photoplay' within a seventeen-week period for a salary of $40,000. For most of the 1930s, similar notes would fly back and forth between Victor's lawyers and the studio, because he resisted any long-term contract. Fleming would soon become the MGM director. In 1971, for an oral history project at Columbia University, the producer Pandro S. Berman, who joined MGM in 1940, was asked whether the reputations of MGM's big directors should really have gone on to the producers. 'I would say [so] except in the case of one man ... Victor Fleming was such a powerful...
...isn’t even being misused. Awkward is a state of being. And it has come to define our generation. From the Clinton scandal—or, as we remember it, that time in fifth grade when our parents were suddenly compelled to explain the concept of oral sex—to the Kanye outburst after Katrina, our lives have been a nonstop parade of awkward. Even Collegehumor.com’s evocative Awkward Rap?...
...their time in prison may be coming to an end. This week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington heard oral arguments over the fate of the Uighurs, who were ordered released by a lower court last month. The oral arguments marked another step along the case's path toward the Supreme Court, where it will likely land early next year as President-elect Barack Obama takes office. Obama, who has vowed to close Guantnamo, will probably release most of the roughly 225 prisoners held there and find a way to try a select...
...Iowa is the only state in the country where we have an open marriage case pending before a court," Chrisler said. (The Iowa high court will hear oral arguments in December.) "So we expect the battle to move now to issues like gay adoption and foster parenting, There isn't anywhere left for the other side to go on marriage." (See a video from a gay wedding...
...themes that Achebe tackles in “Things Fall Apart” are emblematic of those he has negotiated throughout his career. Achebe traverses cultural boundaries by integrating them. In “Things Fall Apart,” he blends features of the African oral tradition with English literary tropes. Although the novel is written in English, Achebe mimics the cadence and narrative structure of the Ibo language, and the characters’ lives revolve around priorities informed by Umuofian values. This blurring of boundaries is to be expected from Achebe, who was born in a Nigerian village...