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- Apr. 29, 1991: Died:David Lean
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 29, 1991 Nuclear Power
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 71
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- <p> DIED. David Lean, 83, the raja of imperial cinema; in London.
- The director's films, which won 28 Academy Awards, spread the
- most intimate emotions--a lover's restlessness in Brief
- Encounter and Doctor Zhivago, a child's rootlessness in Great
- Expectations and Oliver Twist--on a huge, beautiful canvas.
- An old-fashioned adventurer, Lean saw the whole world as a
- sumptuous back lot. He bivouacked in Sri Lanka for The Bridge
- on the River Kwai, on the Irish coast for Ryan's Daughter, in
- India for A Passage to India, in Jordan, Morocco and Spain for
- his masterpiece, Lawrence of Arabia. Sixty-plus years in films,
- Sir David cut as dashing a figure as any of his racked heroes.
- He spent his last years planning another epic project, Joseph
- Conrad's Nostromo.
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