My argument in this essay is that, after the French Revolution, the English Romantic self, as represented in several poems of William Wordsworth, goes through a purifying process for its identification, but as represented in the poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, it also goes through a purgatorial process for its annihilation in the later Romantic period. The process for Wordsworth is primarily acco
It is 7:14 P.M., Monday, September 22, 1975, and we are watching the network news programs on CBS, NBC, ABC and UBS-TV, the network of our story. The AUDIO is OFF; and head shots of WALTER CRONKITE, JOHN CHANCELLOR, HOWARD K. SMITH and HARRY REASONER, and of course, the anchorman of our network, HOWARD BEALE, silently flit and flicker across the four television screens, interspersed with the news
SISTER ACT
by Paul Rudnick
July 19, 199l
Page 1.
SISTER ACT
FADE IN:
INT. ST. ANNES ACADEMY - AKRON, OHIO - CLASSROOM
We are in a parochial school classroom, in the late
Sixties. The children all wear uniforms and sit at little
desks. SISTER IMMACULATA stands at the front of the room;
she is a middle-aged nun, very severe. The children are
all terrified of her.
SISTER IMMACULATA
Who can name all
Network Script
This story is about Howard
Beale, the news anchorman on UBS TV.
In his time, Howard Beale
had been a mandarin of televisin,
the grand old man of news, with a HUT
rating of and a audience share.
In however,
his fortunes began to decline.
He fell to a share.
The following year his wife died
and he was left a childless widower
with an eight rating and a share.
He became morose and iso
A womans face BACKS INTO SHOT, her head resting against grimy wallpaper. She is tense, sweaty, wide-eyed with concentration. This is CLARICE STARLING - mid-20s, trim, very pretty. She wears Kevlar body armor over a navy windbreaker, khaki pants. Her thick hair is piled under a navy baseball cap. A revolver, clutched in her right hand, hovers by her ear. She raises a speedloader, in her left hand,