Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supporters were appalled. "It's disheartening that a large number of fairly intelligent people could do such a dumb thing," lamented Nobel- prizewinning physicist Leon Lederman. His frustration is understandable. Since the 1930s, physicists have been using accelerators to smash atoms together and analyze the debris, with an impressive result: the discovery that matter in all its complex forms seems to be made up of just a few simple particles operating under a handful of basic forces. But this so-called Standard Model is a puzzle that's not quite complete, and finding the last pieces would take something like...
That reality is riveting. The Great Depression follows in the formidable tradition of Eyes on the Prize and The Civil War: a painstakingly researched, artfully assembled, scrupulously evenhanded re-creation of a turbulent, defining era in American history. The Depression of the 1930s is a more diffuse and in some ways more difficult subject than either the Civil War or the civil rights movement. But Hampton and his producers have superbly dramatized a period when democracy was tested more severely than perhaps ever before in American history...
...Victorian seminar centered around the significance and roots of Dracula, beginning with Bram Stoker's 1890s novel and continuing through Todd Browning's 1930s film creation...
...never been another like her . . . and there never will be." He compared her to a nightingale, but the impresario who discovered Edith Giovanna Gassion at 19, singing on the corner of a Paris avenue, had bestowed a more fitting name: Piaf, which in the city's argot of the 1930s meant sparrow...
...movie's first hour plays like a 1930s version of the "The Wonder Years." We watch the story's hero Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford) experience life's small joys and hardships: first kisses and school bullies, games of marbles and overbearing authority figures. Although these scenes practically beg for cliched voice-over narration and close-ups of Fred Savage-like doe eyes, they manage to exude charm...