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Resplendent in his military uniform, Prince Regent Hirohito in 1921 watched the making of a movie in Tokyo. Amazed at this novel way of capturing his country's way of life, the Emperor-to-be gave the new medium official approval, spawning a government-sanctioned industry that created thousands of silent motion pictures. After the rise of Japanese militarism led to the havoc of World War II, most of the country's silent movies were considered lost to history. "Some of the surviving films were destroyed by American occupation forces," says Joseph Anderson, author of the 1983 book, The Japanese...
...Base Bar, a hip sandwich eatery in the basement music department - to its existing 15 (three are concessions). Under Barat's direction, Selfridges even won the Royal Warrant for Food, an honor that allows the store to deliver groceries daily to Buckingham Palace. The recently renovated Liberty store on Regent Street now features a high-end restaurant called Arthur...
University of California Regent Ward Connerly and Harvard Law School Professor Christopher Edley squared off in a heated debate about affirmative action last night at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...
...suppose what I really long for deep down are the movie palaces of old. The Regent, the Roxy; they certainly don’t build them like they used to. However, such classic movie palaces seem confined to an era when double features and newsreels unspooled continuously, and consumer culture was just latching its claws into the American public. Such theaters epitomize the elegance of the films of the past, and emphasize the poor quality of modern film. In that respect, today’s garish theaters are perfect dumping grounds for the latest Hollywood garbage. This past summer produced...
University of Michigan Regent Andrea Fischer Newman told the Daily that Bollinger is Columbia-bound...