Word: 1920s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times Alan Rudolph, the director (and co-writer) of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, seems to have a larger purpose, which is to challenge the supposed glamour of the bright, bibulous young writers who drew themselves up to the round table at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s. Yet Rudolph remains of two minds about his subjects. He wants them to charm us, but he also wants to show how their infinite distractability stunted their lives and careers. His ambivalence creates not an intriguing thematic tension but merely confusion...
...election vindicates a hypothesis about the cyclic nature of American politics ... Each phase recurs at roughly 30-year intervals. Thus the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s were conservative periods; and thus Theodore Roosevelt brought in the Progressive Era in 1901, Franklin Roosevelt the New Deal in 1933 and John Kennedy the New Frontier in 1961 ... No one, therefore, should be surprised by the arrival of a new liberal phase...
...team used a clever, indirect method of measuring the age of the universe. First the scientists determined the distance to a group of galaxies called the Virgo cluster. Then they took advantage of a trick first used by Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who discovered, back in the 1920s, that the universe is expanding -- and for whom the space telescope was named. If the whole cosmos is blowing up like a balloon, Hubble reasoned, then you can calculate backward to see when the balloon began to inflate...
...This is not the first time biology has been used to structure a hierarchy of man," he said. He added that similar views held by eugenicists in the 1920s and 1930s led to the Holocaust...
...marketplace. Such ambitious outfits as First Artists, Orion Pictures, the Ladd Company and Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Studios all came and, sooner or later, went under. With the iffy exception of TriStar, formed in 1982, no successful major studio has started from scratch since Disney in the 1920s...