Word: valentiner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works that follow it, less ambitious in scope, are more successful. Probably the best of these later films is Valentin de las Sierras, made in Mexico. Rather than unify the film through a central protagonist's experience, Baillie portrays the world as a child sees it, conveying a clear sense of wonder through close-ups and impressionistic hand-held camera work. Shots with specific meanings reoccur in a variety of contexts, and characteristic Baillie imagery-a dark horse, an unlit entryway-rearranges itself according to a child-like vision...
...excessive noise" and provide fines for offenders, but practically nobody pays any attention-not even the police. Somehow, Camardella feels, the exuberant Brazilians will have to realize that machinery does not have to sound powerful to satisfy its users. A little travel might help accomplish this goal. Says Photographer Valentin: "I'll never forget the first time I went to Miami. All those cars! The hustle! And almost no noise! For a while there, I really thought there was something wrong with my ears...
...parade in Moscow was predominantly a civilian show, was that the military had attempted a putsch and failed. The ringleaders were quietly executed, so this tale went, and the unreliable Soviet army was forbidden to march through Red Square. Then there was the intriguing matter of General Valentin Penkovsky, most important of the dead generals-and the great-uncle of the most highly placed Russian ever to be recruited to spy for the West inside the U.S.S.R.-Oleg Penkovsky...
...Oddly, composers as a group seem to be unusually prone to bizarre deaths. Among others: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) died of gangrene after smashing his foot with a heavy, canelike conductor's baton while leading an orchestra; Charles Valentin-Alkan (1813-1888) toppled a bookcase over on himself while reaching for a copy of the Talmud; Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) came down with cholera after drinking a glass of tap water; and Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961) suffered fatal brain damage when he became entangled in the leashes of two fighting dogs and fell on a sidewalk...
...group of men gathered last week. They were members of an obscure political sect called Lapiang Malaya (Freedom Movement), and they were armed with long bolo knives and dressed in peculiar blue uniforms with red and yellow capes. At the command of their leader, an old (eightyish) fanatic named Valentin de los Santos, they had come up from their homes in the paddy fields of southern Luzon. Their mission: to march on the presidential palace in Manila and overthrow the government...