Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sickening Speed. Studio stuff, location stuff, newsreel footage, model shots - even outtakes from the classic turkey Tora! Tora! Tora! - are more or less artfully blended to give a vague feeling of what a modern naval engagement must be like - the large distances separating the antagonists when they launch their planes, the sickening speed with which the flames spread when they find their targets. But there is no real sense of the flow of fortune in the battle - the camera shies away from any at tempt at analysis. The Japanese, led by Toshiro Mifune, are neatly dressed and stoic (a useful...
...established history still exist. One of the so-called classic reference textbooks in modern English history, R.K. Webb's Modern England, written five years after Thompson, is quite openly "based on an old-fashioned but still lively assumption--that the people in power are and will remain the principal stuff of history...
...them their place because the losing movements are forces which have at every moment affected the final outcome." American history still awaits such a perspective, but Gutman renews the hope that historians can study all people, in or out of power, who are and will forever remain the principal stuff of history...
...stuff of a corporate soap opera, created by Norman Lear (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) in collaboration with Sophocles (Oedipus Rex). A crusty entrepreneur single-mindedly builds his obscure shoe company into a billion-dollar conglomerate. He turns it over to his son. The young executive discovers that without drastic reorganization the whole empire could topple. His father fiercely disagrees. Finally, the company's board gives the younger man the power to dismantle much of the corporate structure his father had put together. While the old man watches bitterly from the sidelines, the young executive sells marginal stores and unprofitable...
...opening account of an alleged assault by a health inspector while touring Fred's Ice Cream up on Mass Ave is strong, almost in-credible stuff...