tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317706742024-03-14T11:20:50.882-04:00Save Gutenberg: gifts for baby boomers and non-baby boomers, bibliophiles, book loversStuff about books, stuff to buy to make reading more pleasurable as a complement to the virtual, visual age. Intellectual pursuits of interest to baby boomers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31770674.post-29549741485022505782014-07-14T22:58:00.000-04:002014-09-21T20:01:32.980-04:00Remember "Up Against the Wall?" Pass on the Tradition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cheap eyeglasses with titanium frames: here's proof: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBiYMwXmqptR0sBVbrH1Aw16r80dNXsvHMW8fcAsevz3BbXrQWpXRfPt_8Lu05O7WZGc2BEuKU9pU2Bpc2x4QVuXxAQl7L1Z1MewKwCZx17fCsFvSr6XM5a3a5SuAwVtAGmjN5Sw/s1600-h/Scan10001.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBiYMwXmqptR0sBVbrH1Aw16r80dNXsvHMW8fcAsevz3BbXrQWpXRfPt_8Lu05O7WZGc2BEuKU9pU2Bpc2x4QVuXxAQl7L1Z1MewKwCZx17fCsFvSr6XM5a3a5SuAwVtAGmjN5Sw/s320/Scan10001.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337271925554018994" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 306px;" /></a>Is there such a thing as a "good deal"? Prescription glasses at those stores that say "Get 2 pairs for $69.00" is a total deception; it doesn't cover tinting, UV protection, warranty. All you get is a cheap frame and two pieces of glass, and they have to be single vision. When you add up the 'options' the price is about $<span style="font-weight: bold;">170.00 for ONE pair of glasses.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">A)</span> You type in your prescription data (it's not rocket science--it's not even rocket art). <br />
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The answer is YES! If you want to get ripped off by the expensive software programs for sale in shopping malls, go right ahead. You can buy equally good if not better Spanish language learning material for $39.00. Check out my recommendations for learning Spanish. I should know. I've published short stories in Spanish and read and speak it. There is one catch. The key to learning the language is that you really have to <b>WORK AT IT!!!! </b> Darn! Thought you had a great thing going there for a moment, didn't you?</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>1. </b>8 1/2 (1963)___Country: Italy___Director: Federico Fellini Arguably the most famous and most popular foreign film of the decade, <i>8 ½</i> was a breakout film for Fellini from his Neorealism period to his more psychoanalytic, autobiographical, and phantasmagoric phase. Fellini sought truth and if that meant exposing his own weaknesses to the public, we would – and did, in <i>8 ½</i>. The integration of surrealism and realism in <i>8 ½</i> is uncanny. This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1963.</span> <br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>#2. </b>The King of Hearts (1966)___Country: France___Director: Philippe de Broca This film is a bona fide cult film. It combines a gorgeous and imaginative musical score by Georges Delerue with humor, romance, idealism, surrealism, and a powerful antiwar message. This film is a miracle of ensemble acting, with superb performances turned in by Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold, Michel Serrault, Micheline Presle, Francoise Christophe, and others. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>#3. </b>(1962)___Country: France___Director: Jean-Luc Godard Susan Sontag characterized this film as “one of the most extraordinary, beautiful, and original works of art that I know of.” It really is. The camera technique for this film was highly ingenious, behaving like a human observer. <i>My Life to Live</i> tackles the issue of finding oneself through intensive facial close-ups of star actress (and Godard wife) Anna Karina. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>#4.</b> Persona (1966)___Country: Sweden___Director: Ingmar Bergman This film is an extraordinary piece of psychodrama, featuring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann, two actresses with very similar facial features. The cinematography is very special in both composition and lighting, emphasizing facial details and expression. There are also three jarringly brilliant, almost surreal sequences that are cinematographic marvels. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>#5. </b>Shop on Main Street(1965)___Country: Czechoslovakia___Director: Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos This film provides a heart-rending look at one small piece of the Holocaust by focusing on the effect of history’s most incomprehensible event on two main characters: an aging Jewish widow and shopkeeper and the simple man who is appointed as her Aryan controller. The performance by Ida Kaminska was honored by an Academy Award nomination for best actress. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1965.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>#6.</b> Last Year at Marienbad(1961)___Country: France___Director: Alain Resnais This brilliant early film of the New Wave is a mind-blower! It examines the nature of creative representation and art by confronting viewers with a mysterious artificial reality. For many years, this film was interpreted as pure formalistic art and high modernism, until the source of the script was discovered to be an Argentinian science fiction story. Either way, it’s a marvelous film for viewers who enjoy intellectual puzzles.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>#7.</b> Contempt (1963)___Country: France___Director: Jean-Luc Godard This was Godard’s only foray into “commercial” filmmaking as well as one of the few quality roles for French bombshell Brigitte Bardot. The film is best known for its brilliant centerpiece scene which consists of a classic marital dispute, filmed with extraordinary realism in the apartment of the protagonist couple. The final segment is beautifully filmed at the magnificent chateau in Capri, on the Mediterranean.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>#8.</b> Charulata (1964)___Country: India___Director: Satyajit Ray <i>Charulata</i>, or “The Lonely Wife”, the twelfth film of the great Indian director Satyajit Ray, is often regarded as his greatest one. Ray’s great strength as a director was his mastery of subtly communicating through artistry and cinematographic technique rather than action and dialogue alone. Madhabi Mukherjee’s performance in the title role is magnificent.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>#9.</b> Through a Glass Darkly (1961)___Country: Sweden___Director: Ingmar Bergman Like all films of Ingmar Bergman, this superlative psychodrama examines essential questions of human existence: the nature of perception and the challenge of existential isolation. With a cast of just four, Bergman creates a “chamber piece” that features an amazing performance by Harriet Andersson as a woman sinking into schizophrenia. This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1961.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>#10.</b> War and Peace (1968)___Country: U.S.S.R.___Director: Sergei Bondarchuk This Russian adaptation of the great Tolstoy novel boasts a kind of authenticity and faithfulness that has rarely been equaled by other adaptations of great books. This Soviet-Italian co-production took seven years to produce at a cost in excess of $100 million dollars. It features one of the most elaborately staged battle scenes in film history, utilizing tens of thousands of extras. Paintings and furnishings were borrowed from Russian museums to ensure period authenticity. At over 400 minutes in length, it’s a major time investment, but the best scenes in the film rival any recorded on film. This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1968.</span></div>
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Finally, I thought! A reviewer that will be a bit more erudite than most who wander the virtual halls of Amazon's bookstore. However, my enthusiasm waned when I got to the second paragraph where Professor Murphy in quoting Birkerts, uses the word 'vehicule.' Is that supposed to be vehicle? Are my literacy skills degrading or does this little case study help comfirm Birkerts's thesis about the degradation of linguistic abilities. I can tell you one thing. If my grandfather were around--Columbia graduate 1913, Latin teacher, Russian translator, and Biblical scholar--on his slow days and I had made a linguistic faux pas--regardless of the reason--I'd have gotten an earful! <a href="http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~elmurphy/emurphy/elegies.html">Book Review</a> Oh, yea, I put that 's in on purpose to see if you were paying attention ; 0<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual
What do you call someone who speaks one language? American!
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