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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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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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