Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despite these faults, dramatically Ambersons is a great motion picture, adult and demanding. Artistically, it is a textbook of advanced cinema technique. The novel use of sidelighting and exaggerated perspective that made Kane seem unlike any other movie floods Ambersons with the same revealing eloquence, examining faces, bathrooms, streets, the cluttered detail of the Ambersons' magnificence, from a viewpoint so fresh that it creates a visual suspense in the very act of clarification. Once the camera takes a 350-degree turn round the ballroom at George's home-for-the-holidays party, darting in to pick up revealing...
...newcomer to Hollywood, slight, humorous, 49-year-old Ivor Richards has amply pretested Basic English in textbook and lecture. Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he traveled eight years as a Basic missionary in Europe and China, in 1939 became director of the Harvard Commission on English Language Studies under a Rockefeller grant. His textbook for Massachusetts adult aliens (soon to be published by Houghton Mifflin) made a big hit in Latin America. One of his two Basic helpers in China was killed in a bombing raid; the other, in Kunming, has reported a lively business in the first book...
...give the Japs the least possible chance of potting him as he floated down, he decided to fall another two miles before opening his parachute. Meanwhile he took off his wrist watch, which had been jarred loose, and put it in his pocket; remembered a passage in his textbook which said that in a free fall the sensation is one of floating rather than falling. "Nuts," reflected Pilot Hastey, "I can feel myself falling now and it's terrific...
...Compiled and first published by Arthur Hinds, Bible student and textbook publisher...
...ranks, a trace of grease still under their stubby fingernails. They know machines as only men can who have handled them. They are the men who play by ear, with near-perfect pitch. With dog-eared notebooks, pencil stubs and know-how they work out production problems that no textbook could solve...