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SOURCE: "Almodóvar and the Tin Can," in Sight and Sound, Vol. 6, No. 2, February, 1996, pp. 24-7. In the following interview, Almodóvar discusses his latest film The Flower of My Secret, his cinematic process, and Spanish politics. [Smith...
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United States 1915 Sailors and fishermen have historically faced grueling hours, hazardous conditions, and low wages. During the nineteenth century, they were also confronted with corporal punishment, poorly maintained vessels, and few la...
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La Guerre Est Finie is an exciting movie on two counts. It is, I think, the most successful representation on film we have had so far of the archetypal political drama of our time, in which a man's psychological need to make ideological com...
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We always weaken everything we exaggerate....
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La intención de un escrito puede estar dictado a causa de las presuras de las expectaiones de la audiencia.   También, el escritor puede tener una predisposición para alcanzar un objetivo a través de su escrito. &nb...
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Can it be possible for someone to have everything stacked against them, until the point of breaking, and still strive on to survive the everlasting hurdles that they are faced with daily? Well, it must be possible because La Joe did. In the...
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Numerous amounts of students label themselves as readers. Some may be classified under the category reluctant and underachieving readers while others go the extra mile and categorize themselves as avid and eager readers. As an individua...
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SOURCE: "Hugo's Légende des Siècles," in Literary Reviews and Essays, edited by Albert Mordell, Twayne Publishers, 1957, pp. 136–38. In following review of La légende des siècles, which was originally published in The Nation in May 3,...
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Roughly every time I walk into my suite or apartment, the television is on constantly in the living room, even if no one is watching it. Perhaps my suitemates just cannot stand complete silence and need it to always be on. I wake up to the...
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Luna is a dreadfully poseurish film, whether Caterina, stopping at the gate to the Villa Verdi, improbably apostrophizes the filmmaker's favorite composer, or whether the neurotic homelife of mother and son is shown in the most superficial ...
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Introduction Time. Most people take it for granted ¡V but what is it? This is a question that has been debated by philosophers and scientists alike since the ancient Greeks, and our knowledge is still incomplete. My report is on the...
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The difficulty in summarizing La Modification, like Butor's other novels, comes not from an excess or an absence of "content" as such, but from the insistent dualism, the simultaneous presence of inner and outer worlds. The basic analogy th...
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La Mothe Le Vayer, Fran cle. 2 vols. Paris: Boivin, 1943. Popkin, Richard H. The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003....
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SOURCE: A review of La Moustache, in The French Review, Vol. LX, No. 6, May, 1987, pp. 904-05. In the following mixed review of The Mustache, Solomon contends that "Carrère has some difficulty sustaining the premise of his novel—maintain...
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SOURCE: “Tarare” and “La Mere Coupable,” in Beaumarchais and the Theatre, Routledge, 1995, pp. 196-220. In the excerpt below, Howarth, a noted Beaumarchais scholar, places Tarare and La Mère coupable in the context of Beaumarchais'...
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Like L'Avventura, Blow-Up concerns the search for something that is never found. As in La Notte, the peripatetic hero fails to accomplish anything. Like the other protagonists, the photographer is the embodiment of a role, although here he ...
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[La Peau Douce] is a trap: there have been plenty of films about adultery, but few have ventured to take the mechanism so methodically to pieces…. Through his use of disconnection (light switches, camera shutters, gear-changes), Truffaut ...
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La Peyr 1676): His Life, Work and Influence. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1987....
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Spanish (español (help·info)) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language originally from the northern area of Spain. From there, its use gradually spread inside the Kingdom of Castile, where it evolved and eventually became the ...
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La Regenta (The Judge’s Wife) by Leopoldo Alas (“Clarín”) Leopoldo Alas, better known by the pseudonym “Clarín,” which he adopted in 1875, was born in Zamora, Spain, on April 25, 1852, but hi...
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La mayoría de las representaciones del encuentro de las Américas retrata los españoles como cruel a los nativos americanos.  Estos representaciones también describen los indigenos como desnudos y como no muy intelig...
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Ability wins us the esteem of the true men, luck, that of the people. There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of ...
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La Rochefoucauld, Duc FranÇois De(1613–1680) Duc François de La Rochefoucauld, the French epigrammatist and moral critic, was born in Paris; he was known as the prince de Marcillac until he succeeded his father in 1650....
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Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great or great evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others....
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SOURCE: "Ophuls and the Romantic Tradition," in Yale French Studies, No. 17, Summer, 1956, pp. 3-5. In the following essay, Archer identifies Ophuls as the most controversial figure in French cinema. La Ronde opens with the introduction of ...
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Saint Valentine (also Valentinus) refers to one of several martyred saints of ancient Rome. The feast of Saint Valentine was formerly celebrated on February 14 by the Roman Catholic Church until a revised calendar was issued in 1969, pursua...
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[La Soufrière] is one of Werner Herzog's most exquisite efforts, a perfect distillation of his talents…. [The] film is a serene, strangely clear-headed documentary about the end of the world…. "Heart of Glass" [is] a feature by Mr. Her...
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L.A. Story is a 1991 English language movie directed by Mick Jackson and written by Steve Martin . This film article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of film articles , to determine how to edit this article to ...
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In its internal consistency, La Strada is more than a remarkable example of personal style. We may then ask: What is Fellini's image of the world we live in, his conception of man and the ethic he advances? Men are separated by astral dista...
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With La Terra Trema, Visconti developed the neo-realist approach to a dramatic subject in its most extreme form: the players, the lines they speak, the places they live in, the whole social background and motivation, depart hardly at all fr...
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One of the most important themes throughout `Campos de Castilla' is the relationship between the poet and the external reality. In `La Tierra de Alvargonzález', this is also an important theme, yet this poem differs from the collectio...
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The audience responded to separate theatrical moments, touches, stunts in [La Turista], though it could not follow the alogic of the play, to use [an] appropriate term. It did follow the play's drift, its strident tone, its attitude of abus...
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LA VALLÉE POUSSIN, LOUIS DE (1869–1938), was a Belgian Indologist and specialist in Buddhist philosophy. Educated in Liège, Louvain, Paris, and Leiden, La Vallée Poussin became professor at the University of Ghe...
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Farming Timeline 1900–1919 ∼ Migration of the Farm Population Pure Food and Drug Act sets standards for food and drug control (1906) / Mass migration of workers across the nation depletes the farm population (1915–1919) / Af...
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