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...sons becomes an army paymaster, and when his regiment is overrun by the enemy, he is too honest to turn over the cashbox. His captors are bribable, but Mother Courage haggles too long over the price, and the boy dies before the firing squad. Just before, Mother Courage has implied that she will do anything to save her son. It is characteristic Brechtian cynicism to stage a contest between greed and mother love, and have greed...
...HILL: Sir Alec Guiness py cinematic cliche about lry in a Scottish regiment, OF GLORY. With John enings...
...freeze the scene with absolute accuracy. But the Special came astonishingly close. His severest critics were the troops; when the illustrated weeklies reached the front, their pictures were carefully measured against the memories of the subjects themselves. "I beg to say," wrote a major of the 9th New York Regiment to Leslie's in 1862, "that your illustrations of the victories on Roanoke Island are very correct." If the artist erred, he was certain to hear of it. Alfred Waud was greeted with derisive hoots for his picture of the charge of Sickles' Brigade at Fair Oaks...
...German days Grosz could be outrageous at times, but always he was outraged, and his searing anger burns through to this day. He learned to draw -or so he liked to say-in the officers' club his widowed mother ran for an aristocratic Prussian regiment in Pomerania. There "decrepit old men" would outline lewd pictures with soap on the mirror over the bar, and the boy would copy them in secret. Hardly noticed by them, he closely observed his mother's arrogant, stiff-backed, high-collared customers, whom he delighted in imitating all the rest of his life...
...been criticizing for years. As the newly appointed White House staffer charged with drawing up proposals to reform the agencies, Landis plans to draft a whole regiment of legislation to push through his changes. The new Administration has a great opportunity to free business to move faster, make more of its own decisions...