Word: circa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I was a boy (circa 1925), I believed Jimmy Walker was the greatest! He was from Greenwich Village; he was fast with a one-liner; he was a "con" man and a lousy mayor of New York. Now we have a repeat: Ed Koch...
...literally shaped by the carved sculptor's own passion, as though the contrasts between consciousness and dream, body and effigy, art and life, subject and object could all be packed into one erotic metaphor. No wonder that when he made his image of The Sculptor and His Muse (circa 1890), the Muse's hand was laid encouragingly on the sculptor's genitals. Rodin was no ordinary phallocrat...
...each arm. With a little help from Writer-Director Philip Kaufman, who worked on the story for two weeks, the blonds and the nightclub disappeared. Lucas' archaeologist hero (along with anthropology, it was the producer's favorite college course) finds himself recruited by the American Government, circa 1936, to foil, singlehanded, a huge German team that is on the brink of rediscovering the long-lost Ark of the Covenant, in which the tablets containing the Ten Commandments were placed after they were brought down from Mount Sinai...
...their customers at cocktail parties, Merrill was a maverick who introduced mass merchandising to the stock market. He wooed Middle America by abolishing service charges, slashing markups on many stock trades, and running lively advertising campaigns in national newspapers and magazines. A sample slogan from a Merrill Lynch ad, circa 1940: "Hats off to a smart little housewife!... When Sue thinks of investments, she consults a reliable organization like Merrill Lynch." The upstart firm grabbed a lead on its stuffy competitors and never looked back...
...film is in two acts. In the first, Katerina is a young girl, circa 1958, living in a workers' dormitory. By day she toils in a factory; by night she studies to advance herself, and gets involved with a light-minded roommate's plan to entrap men by pretending to be more worldly than they are. There is a sweet giddiness to this passage, a nostalgic indulgence of youthful silliness-except that it is the women who are trapped. Katerina becomes pregnant and bears the child of the slick television-type who is briefly her lover, but presses...