Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most-favored-director status goes to Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky's brother Nikita Mikhalkov, 34. His Slave of Love was one of the few recent Soviet films to receive critical acclaim and a measure of box-office success when it was released in the U.S. last year. A touching, gently comic portrait of a movie company on location in 1917, Slave of Love shows a group of innocents trying to avoid being caught up in the revolution. In Five Evenings, Mikhalkov tells the story of a middle-aged man and woman trying to pick up the threads of a romance they...
...some directors, the endings are darkly lit. The first director assigned to Slave of Love was a wildly talented young Uzbek named Rustam Hamdamov, the hope of the Soviet film school, who seemed destined to drag this once proud national cinema back to glory. But according to a friend, when the editors saw Hamdamov's lyrical-surreal footage, they fired him and brought in Nikita Mikhalkov to reshoot the film. Hamdamov's art, it seems, no longer appears in state cinemas; it hangs on the walls and in the closets of private homes. At last report, the U.S.S.R...
...colonial times most missionaries tried to steer clear of direct politics, though it was Missionary David Livingstone who crusaded to close down the Arab slave trade in Zanzibar. But today Christian churches are deeply involved -partly because governments either attack them or need their help, partly because some missionaries are heavily radicalized and have rallied not only to preserve the right to worship but to protect black Africans from the new injustices visited on them by oppressive regimes, black and white...
...transcendent" achievement in his much admired short story "The Bear" leads nowhere. Isaac, the fatherless heir, who analyzes his past by plodding through his grandfather's ledgers and talking it out--shrink/client style--with his uncle, recollects his past and so avoids repeating its mistakes. He renounces his slave and plantation holdings and becomes, with Faulkner's sledgehammer Christian symbolist touches, a carpenter. But Isaac is childless and lacks collective vision anyway, as King observes, "to become the founder himself and to pass on this moral (or aesthetic) vision to anyone else...
...department needs two historians," Patterson said, adding Huggins is an "excellent" start, but he is a "generalist." Genovese, a specialist in slave history and knowledgeable in the Black experience in Latin America, would add "needed depth," he said...