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...Mistress. Novelist and filmmaker Catherine Breillat became notorious with four movies - Romance, Fat Girl, Sex Is Comedy and Anatomy of Hell - that put young women in states of bondage or virginal peril without making them seem victims, and with an attention to sexual realism that verged on hard-core. Breillat suffered a cerebral hemmorage a while back; that hasn't stopped her career but it has slightly softened her tone. An Old Mistress, based on a 19th century novel by Jules-Am?d?e Barbey d'Aurevilly, is the director's first period film; she wants to see what's under those...
...Paradise, and so is Berlin; he has six songs in this pastiche of revue numbers from the first years of the 20th century through New Faces of 1952. There are more than 30 tunes, some more familiar than others, and two comedy sketches - the first (the 1923 "The Yellow Peril") a one-gag item in which goldenrod flowers on the stage make all the actors sneezes they speak, the other (the 1949 "Gorilla Girl") about a jungle movie with very dumb starlet and a very smart gorilla. Both sketches cue you that, for just this once, Encores...
...year was 1897, and Paris was in peril. Nearly every day, another of its graceful old alleys, passageways, churches, shops, hôtels particuliers, fortifications, fountains and other charmingly decrepit fixtures fell to the wreckers' ball. Napoléon III and his architect Baron Haussmann - with their vision of an imposing, rectilinear city - had launched the orgy of destruction, and the advance of the new Métro system was finishing the job. Soon, it seemed, the Paris of Abelard and Héloïse, Voltaire and Molière, Balzac and Hugo would be a dusty memory, surviving...
Harvard is indeed in peril of losing its American identity, but the problem is not one that can or should be fixed by a majority vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). At its root, this is a problem of emotion, rather than academics. The danger is not that future generations of Harvard students will lose the ability to study American labor markets, read Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” or write essays about the Atlanta Compromise. It is that they will no longer understand, on a gut level, why they...
...multifaceted and rich tradition. A consciousness of the past not only offers the instructive examples of prior greatness but also the folly of human pride. As creatures in time, we all are products of history: We only try to escape our past in vain and at our own peril...