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...city locations would range from 635 to 2,000 acres, accommodate 25,000 people and strive for the kind of cosmopolitan atmosphere that once made the city an attraction for middle-class whites. The suburban sites, covering between 3,600 and 8,000 acres, would house 75,000 people, with generous green space and good low-rent housing...
...would pursue for the rest of his career, and he described it with his usual laconic concreteness. "In life all things come under the magnetic influence of other things-the bigger assert themselves strongly-the smaller not so much but they still assert themselves and though hidden they strive to be seen and in so doing change their bent and direction. While these powers are at work pushing, pulling, sideways, downwards, upwards, I can hear the sound of their strife and there is a great music being played...
Second, Clavell clearly has not been affected by any of the hysteria over recognition of film as a visual art which has forced some old pros and inchoate apprentices to strive hysterically for a "look": more specifically, a "now" look. From his work, I assume that Clavell would think even the serious theories to be so much drivel. I don't know if I'd call him a "good storyteller" as Pauline Kael did, but that is precisely what he intends to be, and at times he is successful. He is crude in the sense that a Michael Curtiz...
...CRIMSON isn't all viewing. At the founder's meeting in 1873, one of the Crimson bylaws read, "... and ye shall strive, with each and every extension of your muscular endeavor, to rejoice in accomplishing 100 undefeated seasons of cricket." The CRIMSON still needs three more perfect softball records to let the original editors' souls rest in peace...
...circa 1647, that Ireton was not a power-mad advocate of absolute government, that Edward Hyde did not abandon Charles' cause, and that Cromwell did not spend "six years" wasting away in the country before the Protectorate. One of those lumbering ironies for which such films strive ( Anne concluded with a pan shot of Good Queen Bess as a tot) was in Cromwell based on blatant contrivance: Cromwell the regicide was not forced during the Commonwealth to reject fawning Parliamentarians offering him a crown, though Hughes has written a totally factious scene into his screenplay precisely to that effect...