Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wind clone has surfaced under the title L'Orto del Paradiso (The Garden of Paradise). When the heroine of Rosa Giannetta Alberoni's novel kisses her amante ("Arianna seemed to hear a roaring, as if she had held seashells against her ears"), the moment echoes the heart-thudding scene between Scarlett O'Hara and Ashley Wilkes ("There ) was a low curious roaring sound in her ears as of seashells being held against them"). Yet despite a plethora of parallel passages, Alberoni denies she has ever read Mitchell's novel. By contrast, Deforges admits that she borrowed heavily from Gone With...
...perhaps the archetypal scene of the early civil rights struggle. Yet this particular restaging of it was a breakthrough for a quite different reason. It appeared not in a TV movie or a PBS docudrama but on a network news show...
Officers arrived on the scene half-an-hour intothe dispute and broke up the crowd of about 40onlookers, said Aubrey S. Okpaku '92, a friend ofBarrow's who also argued with "the townie...
Bellow's spokesman happens to be on the scene, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1959, when Sorella manages to arrange a showdown with her husband's savior. She tells all, of course. Her description of the crucial encounter, both poignant and hilarious, settles nothing except the certainty that Broadway Billy Rose will do anything to avoid receiving an expression of gratitude by Polish immigrant Harry Fonstein...
...American Scene...