Word: potemkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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General Line. Sergei Eisenstein's "girl-meets-tractor" silent film projects something close to Stalin's line on mechanized agriculture.' But the filming, of course, is brilliant, and the editing represents a major refinement of the exciting montage Eisenstein had developed in Strike and Potemkin...
KIRKLAND HOUSE DINING HALL: Potemkin...
...Potemkin--The old Eisenstein warhorse, still moving, still frightfully well-edited...
...carefully rehearsed. Example: when the President visited the Ming tombs, smiling, colorfully dressed Chinese frolicked in the vicinity. Sure enough, as soon as the visit ended, functionaries collected the transistor radios that people were listening to. little girls removed the bright ribbons from their hair and the whole Potemkin-village scene vanished in a twinkling...
...there is a darker side to Atlanta, the hint of a Potemkin village that masks the same patterns killing cities elsewhere in the nation. Whites are fleeing to the suburbs, leaving behind an inner-city population that is 51.3% black. Unemployment among the marginally skilled blacks of the ghettos is three times that of the city's whites. Although it boasts one of the world's busiest airports and a rail network that feeds the Southeast, Atlanta's commuters creep bumper to bumper in rush-hour traffic unrelieved by mass transit. Within minutes of downtown is bucolic countryside?but Peachtree...