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Mr. Scorsese took to the format, and it became a running joke for him to say, "Don't skimp on the pâté," as a reference to keep pushing the depth of 3-D in various scenes, says Demetri Portelli, the "Hugo" stereographer.
The Godfathers Of Film Take On 3-D* Michelle Kung 2011
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"What's clear is that Subversion installation, administration, security and governance have historically been command-line-driven, requiring special expertise and up-to-the-minute knowledge," Portelli said.
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Portelli was seized in a motel here and finally signed papers waiving extradition.
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At right Portelli pleads with authorities, asking them to take the photographers away.
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Portelli and two companions had been sought by New York authorities as suspects in the killing to two Brooklyn detectives, Luke J.
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In addition, Lilli's story was also what Alessandro Portelli has called a "youth narrative," marked by a sense of openness and change, of multiple possible identities. 61 It thus revealed the space between the personal experience and the "history" as one marked not simply by the passage of time but by changing meanings, changing identities, and additional layers of history, events, and experiences.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Note 61: Portelli, The Battle of Valle Giulia, x-xi, 192-98. back
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Note 41: As Portelli wrote, "'wrong tales' ... are so very valuable [because] they allow us to recognize the interests of the tellers, and the dreams and desires beneath them" (Portelli, The Death of Luigi Trastulli, 2).
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Note 13: Alessandro Portelli writes that An inter/view is an exchange between two subjects: literally a mutual sighting.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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(Portelli 1991, Jean Allman 1990, Pohlandt-McCormick/Mouton 1999) as valuable evidence of or clues to something else.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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