Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vermeer paintings, Mauritshuis Director A. B. de Vries has managed to bring together eleven of the greatest, the largest such gathering since a 1696 Amsterdam auction. Setting them off is a complementary exhibition of masterpieces, ranging from Caravaggio to Cézanne, which echo Vermeer's serenity of spirit and magical treatment of light...
...year is 1995, and the science of micronics has learned how to reduce objects and even people to the size of a bacterium-for 60 minutes. After a Czech scientist discovers how to prolong miniaturization, U.S. agents spirit him across the Atlantic. Alas, before he can explain the discovery, he is attacked by enemy operatives and left in a coma caused by a blood clot in midbrain. Since no conventional operation is possible, the high command approves a daring plan: a miniaturized submarine with a crew of shrunken specialists (led by Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch) is injected into...
...large part of an hour the same might be said of the film itself. Manny Winn's camera captures the fairy lights that delicately image the immanence of the Celtic twilight. And John Addison's murmuring, warm-weird music summons forth the cold green spirit of the place like ould St. Patrick's pipe itself...
...compound's fundamentalist ministers. On principle, they refused to lend their canteen cards to heavy smokers-but they would not hesitate to barter the cigarettes they got from the Red Cross for extra tins of food. Far more popular were the Roman Catholic missionaries, who generally displayed a spirit of freedom from material wants that enabled them to play a creative, neighbor-helping role in the community...
...LeRoy, Kans., in April 1897. The hideous humanoids stole his heifer, hauled it aboard their "airship," and, "jabbering together," sailed away. "I don't want anything more to do with them," concluded Hamilton's affidavit. Most people would echo Hamilton's heartfelt prayer in the spirit of those who do not believe in ghosts and hope never...