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Four careers—precision machinist, freelance film cameraman, classical record buyer for an independent record store, postproduction engineering/supervision at an undergraduate film program. Now retired. Witness to too much over the last 60 years. Taoist.

Movie poster parody of The Creature from the Black Lagoon with Stephen Miller starring as The Creature from the Reflecting Pool

Destroyed residential neighborhood in Nuremberg, ca. 1945

…I call her Paula and I call him Rilke. I can't bring myself to call him Rainer Maria. But her, especially, what do we call her? Modersohn-Becker, the name of her future husband, also the name on the catalogues devoted to her work? Becker-Modersohn, as in her museum in Bremen? Becker, her maiden (virgin) name, which is the name of her father?
"The simple and honest name of Becker" is a common surname in Germany. Paula Becker is the name of a girl whose father was called Becker and who was given the first name of Paula.

JFK talking with impoverished children in West Virginia.

At the end of the movie Citizen Kane, the one thing Charles Foster Kane treasured most, his sled from his boyhood, is tossed into an incinerator.

Promotional graphic for the BBC film, The War Game by Peter Watkins, a pseudo-documentary about the aftermath of a limited nuclear strike on England.