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...still shapeless and shoddy, the well-dressed visitors brought gifts of fresh fruit, flowers, candies and toys. They would have brought much more, but the East German Grenzpolizei refused to allow any merchandise across the border that might display the abundance and quality of Western goods. Meat or sausages, phonograph records and stereo tapes, fur and leather goods, clothes or any products in cans, bottles or sealed packages were all strictly verboten...
...Take It With You. The phonograph is lower than the lights but the tune and the words are just audible: A cigarette that bears a lipstick...
...with him in French, the last living participant in the all-but-forgotten plot described the fateful night of Dec. 29, 1916. He invited Rasputin to a midnight snack in the basement of his Moika palace, the prince told the court. There, while accomplices played Yankee Doodle on the phonograph upstairs, Youssoupoff fed Rasputin cakes and wine sprinkled with cyanide "sufficient to kill several men instantly." Rasputin merely "coughed," looked "drunk," and asked the prince to sing. Appalled, and in no mood for warbling, the prince ran upstairs to consult his friends and get a gun from the Grand Duke...
...doubted that his sympathies lay with Nana in that film, however formalistic his presentation. In The Married Woman one simply does not know whether he is subtly making fun of Charlotte or whether he is showing her as the victim of the sexuality that assails her from billboards, magazines, phonograph records, and even overheard conversations. Again, the philosophical discourses that have always marked Godard's films have all been enigmatic; though filled with tosh, they were strategically timed and lovingly staged, and one wondered to what extent they echoed the director's thought...
...applies that theory by getting his teachers to sing simple songs or to play phonograph records while pointing out words on big blackboard-size charts. The kids sing the words, get up and move to the rhythm of the songs, acting out the words with gestures. For example, they may "fly with the angels," then "chatter with the angels," "march with the angels," "dance with the angels." As they play out the roles, the teacher flashes the key verbs on cards, enabling the kids to connect sight, sound and movement...