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...trails them as they trek, scheming to get his own back, while Davis makes himself useful around the wagon (at one point he gives Shelley a wash and set that would do credit to Kenneth or Alexandre). The rest of the movie is devoted to Lancaster's strata gems-this is where the brilliantly photographed avalanche and the stampede come in-and Davis' rather pat redemption from the psychological bonds of slavery. In the end, the scalpers get their just deserts, of course, and the Indians get revenge, plus Shelley. Who rides off into the sunset? Ossie...
Serendipity struck a group of Ohio State University geologists last December as they picked away at the stratified sediment in an ancient stream bed high in the frigid Transantarctic Mountains. Investigating rock strata to learn more about the Antarctic ice sheet, they uncovered a small fossilized bone fragment with continent-sized implications...
...voice is at once "distinguished, melodic, mellifluous, the kind that makes people stop and listen." It does so in a soft, unobtrusive, untheatrical way. It bespeaks intelligence and money-old money. His agent, Fifi Oscard, calls it "upscale," an ad-game adjective that evokes the top social and economic strata...
...leaders of the Third Reich (notably the SS, the core of the whole movement) really had taken Nietzsche seriously. So had large strata of the German educated class in general...How could a movement of this sort have gained power in a major European country? Dreadful though it is, the answer must be: largely by accident. For there can be little doubt that an early successful attempt on Hitler's person would have caused his party to collapse ... The Third Reich was a oneman show...
CERTAINLY one need not hold an utterly materialist view of society to maintain that this is over-doing it. Why Hitler and not someone else? Why some strata and not others...