Word: camelots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final pages, Manchester turns to the transformation from Kennedy to Camelot; again, he tells us that if we had been there this is what we would have felt. After all his attempts to recreate the past, though, all that remains of Kennedy is "the receptacle of the wishful longings of the world." Perhaps this is Manchester's admission that history cannot be recreated. But he seems to hope that it can be repeated. Or that at least he can convince us that the shining moments took place. Cristine A. Mesch
Later would come the end of Camelot, the Kennedy Promise, the end of Ideology, on November 22, there was only shock. Chayes comments. "You were just numb at the time--I don't think you thought much of anything...
...point from which her life's trajectory begins. Isenberg has a whiny, mournful voice, which tends to grate and becomes monotonous, but the tone does add to her air of wistful reminiscence. She believes in the story as in a myth, sees Kennedy as a Christ figure and a Camelot legend...
...Finn had unfairly tried to stop Hill, but a word from the announcer ("Remember please, these people are our guests") turned boos into applause. The sunny mood returned and remained. Nature cooperated, and for those two weeks the temperature was exactly what the Chamber of Commerce had promised. Camelot could not have offered more...
Attentive viewers will recognize Krull as the 68th variation on medieval scifi, where Camelot meets Middle Earth, and Errol Flynn engages in just enough Star Wars to keep Screenwriter Stanford Sherman and Director Peter Yates out of plagiarism court. Like the cycle's earlier entries, Krull offers battles, special effects and a hero and heroine with all the humanity of furniture on feet. But there are ingenuities of décor and character here. The Beast's fortress contains vaulted corridors that resemble a vulture's rib cage; his lair is a rococo igloo; walls close...