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...include in the book. At 2 p.m. I was slated to board a tour bus to visit Verdun’s war memorials; more than 100,000 French soldiers and 100,000 German soldiers died here in 1916 during the disastrous, ten month long Battle of Verdun of WWI...
Moreover, much-quoted “alcohol-related” numbers are about as relevant to the problem of drunk driving as the ratio of cars to bumblebees. These numbers, rolled out by MADD like WWI howitzers, do not evaluate whether drinking actually contributed to the accident. So, if a sober driver hits a driver who had a beer at dinner, it is recorded as an “alcohol-related” accident. In fact, as noted by Radley Balko, a Cato Institute analyst, when the Los Angeles Times examined accident data in 2002, it found that only...
...presence and historical value attractive to today’s students,” the director said in an email. The connection between past and present manifests itself in multiple facets of the film. Van Devere combines footage shot in 2005 with early twentieth-century music, radio clips from WWI, and “actualities” shot by Thomas Edison. The film’s nine credited actors are comprised of eight undergraduates and the late Harry E. Widener, class of 1907. Widener’s photograph acts as a characterization of the soldiers’ soon...
...Majesty The Decemberists is a worthy follow-up on all counts. The band manages to gently expand its repertoire while retaining everything that made Castaways so endearing. Pre-Marxist revolutionary Colin Meloy is still penning dime-novel tales about dissolute seamen, WWI doughboys, a blindfolded “Jewess” and a rascally “chimbley sweep.” The songs verge on Gothic, but only in a literary sense—driven by nostalgia, they sound as if the Decemberists have never heard anything recorded after 1975, let alone a Cure record...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Now with topical overtones, David Lean’s 1962 classic will soon play on a wide silver screen. A life chronicle of T. E. Lawrence, a British officer who in WWI created a guerilla force out of Arabs waging their own private wars, Lawrence of Arabia has an immortal cast: Peter O’Toole (this year’s Oscar winner for lifetime achievement), Alec Guinness (a.k.a. Obi-Wan Kenobi), Claude Rains (Casablanca’s prefect of police) and Anthony Quinn (who was Zorba the Greek). Friday, April 11 through Sunday, April...