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QUESTION: A shot where the camera looks straight down a stairwell recurs in several of your films. Is this intentional?
The Three Princesses (1785) foreshadows a decline which was to commence in the next ten years. The picture is an effort in the grand style of the rococo painters. The ornamental detail dominates the picture and the subjects are lost. Furthermore, the figures are treated with a schematized shorthand that...
Ill lay: former Ambassador to Russia Llewellyn E. Thompson, 58, stricken with a kidney-stone attack while golfing on the Air Force Academy course near Colorado Springs; and former President Herbert Hoover, 88, still recuperating in a Manhattan hospital after the removal two weeks ago of a tumor in his...
If phenomenology holds in common with linguistic philosophy an analysis of meaning, it shares with existentialism the theory that our acts determine, or constitute, our ego. "This same element of ego-constitution recurs in all the existentialists," Follesdal said, "although for Kierkegaard, the ego-determining effects of our acts appear...
The 'De Profundis,' sixth of a set of seven penitential psalms, displayed the Glee Club more to advantage. Kapellmeister di Lasso began the set of psalms under commission from Duke Albert of Bavaria in 1563. He based the sixth psalm on a cantus firmus (chant melody) which recurs in each...