Word: arcadia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considers a violent film "a venting mechanism" for teen emotions. It's too bad she hasn't been shown other avenues for handling strong emotions in a mature way, such as communication and physical exercise, rather than relying on an entertainment form to handle them for her. ANNICK DOWNHOWER Arcadia, Calif...
...intensely material painting: the care Ingres took with every last detail of her costume and massive jewelry--the cascading rose-embroidered fabric, the tassels on the bodice--almost defies belief. On the other it harks back in time. Her pose is taken from that of the goddess of Arcadia in an antique mural from Herculaneum that Ingres saw in Naples; whence her bizarre hand, that pampered starfish of flesh. Then there is the profile reflection of her face in the mirror, one of the most discreetly enigmatic "presences" in all painting...
...educated in India and England, catapulted to fame with a different Shakespearean work: the 1967 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an existential reimagining of two characters from Hamlet. Since then his work has been known for its wordplay and highbrow subject matter--such as chaos theory in Arcadia, or the life of poet A.E. Housman in The Invention of Love, now running in London. Many of his plays have been criticized for their emotional inaccessibility, but, says Stoppard a bit testily, "If people think it, then they think it. That's fine." In fact, romantic passion has long been...
...Brown mysteries under the mango trees, and his language is crunchy with indigenous hybrids (a golfer's swing is "flatter than a Bambalapitiya cheesecake"). Here he simply unravels the story of two rival clans occupying a piece of land once developed by an English captain with a house called Arcadia. By the end of the book, one scion is running a Shangri-La Hotel, and a matriarch is being buried in chilly London, at a funeral without mourners...
...governed by law, a clean and efficient government. So now that the glorious Union Jack has been lowered for the last time in beautiful Hong Kong, I want to thank the British for all they've done to make Hong Kong what it is today. BENJAMIN KONG, age 15 Arcadia, Calif...