Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notably in Rain and Grand Hotel - but those parts at MGM, which held her contract, usually went to the likes of Norma Shearer. After 17 years, Crawford moved on to Warner Bros., where she held out for two pictureless years until she got Mildred Pierce, which won her an Oscar in 1945. That film launched her on her middle passage, during which she played women who suffered much for love or ambition...
Under a nearby tree in Lowell courtyard Monica Strauss '78 quoted Plato: "The unexamined life is no life for man." She said she doesn't talk about the weather very often, adding, "As Oscar Wilde wrote, when people talk about the weather they are usually thinking about something else...
...Atonement. Black and White in Color is the dark-horse winner of this year's Oscar for best foreign picture. It was filmed by a French unit in the Ivory Coast in what almost amounts to an act of atonement: the movie not only presents a comically petty microcosm of war, but in its terse, understated way gives a withering account of the racial ignorance and contempt on which colonialism was built. The result hardly renews one's faith in human nature, but it is consistently riveting and grimly amusing...
Harlan County, USA. Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary of miners and a coal strike in Harlan Country, Kentucky is very worth seeing. Kopple skillfully weaves a pastiche of film clips from the 1930s, when the county was known as "Bloody Harlan," footage of UMWA leaders from John L. Lewis to Tony Boyle, Jock Yablonski, and Arnold Miller, and always the 13-month strike that didn't end until miner Lawrence Jones was murdered by scabs. The music is first-rate--all old union songs, some by local hero David Morris of Ivydale, West Virginia, Kopple's camera is discreet...
...Oscar Wilde sometimes complained of historians who had fallen into "careless habits of accuracy." He would have relished the work of the British recluse Edmund Backhouse, celebrated in his day (1873-1944) for his translations from the Chinese and his vast Sinological contributions to Oxford's Bodleian Library. The Backhouse oeuvre is filled with an amalgam of profound insight, scholarship and, it now appears, pornography; all it lacks is a single component: truth...