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...third character, the tobacco planter John Rolfe (Christian Bale). Malick doesn?t tell this poignant tale so much as he shows it. And what a show! Managing to make an epic film on an indie budget ($35 million), shooting in natural light - and, praise be, on the original Virginia terrain, not in Romania or New Zealand - Malick dramatizes the cultural collision with images of rapturous beauty. It may take a fresh set of eyes to discover this nearly abstract vision. But you?ll revel in the film if, like Capt. Smith, you surrender to the surroundings and... look closer...
...illustrations of the life of animals with instructive text." Along with his eccentric riffs on savage nature, Rousseau applied his unique vision to portraits, allegories and landscapes. War (1894) is a large work with a simple message: war is bad. A woman rides sidesaddle over the dead through devastated terrain, waving a sword and a blazing torch. It is unquestionably weird, but the artist has used shape and color, especially the dead black of ravens, horse and drooping leaves, in an abstract way that was admired by painter Paul Gauguin. Eventually, Rousseau was adopted by an avant-garde circle that...
...More than 30 people participated in this difficult rescue that lasted late into the evening,” Preisendorfer wrote. While half the group stayed at the cabin and prepared food and water for the rescue personnel, the other half helped transport the injured climber through the difficult terrain between Huntington Ravine and the HMC cabin, Laursen wrote in an e-mail. Twenty-six HMC members assisted in the rescue, according to Laursen. When Laursen learned that there had been an accident, his initial concern was that it involved an HMC member. “With that many HMCers...
...Harvard Law professors who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in September don’t think so. “[T]here is no way of deciding the Solomon Amendment’s constitutionality, either way, without venturing into uncharted terrain,” the professors wrote...
...Harvard Law professors who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in September don’t think so. “[T]here is no way of deciding the Solomon Amendment’s constitutionality, either way, without venturing into uncharted terrain,” the professors wrote...