Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: A Greek antiwar classic gets a faithfully bawdy rendition and some pointed contemporary context...
...residence in the country not only gives the President a patina of masculine, aristocratic ease, but in the specific ways the President uses it, it also provides a powerful second context, a non-Washington context, with which he can define himself. Not every summer White House would work for each President, but each gave the President a useful background outside Washington against which to set himself on a regular basis. Are there any more appealing images of Kennedy than those of him sailing, his hair tousled? At San Clemente, Nixon reminded the country that he was a poor...
...private property of very conservative religious fundamentalists," Gomes said. "Because of the ignorance of the larger [audience], we depend on the Pat Robertsons and the Jerry Falwells to tell us what the Bible says. I want to take it back from them and put it in a much broader context...
With all this data, 19th century scholars began trying to decipher the hieroglyphic script, reconstruct Maya history and figure out what caused the civilization to fall apart. In the absence of any historical context, though, speculation tended to run a little wild. Some ascribed the monumental buildings to survivors of the lost continent of Atlantis; others insisted they were the work of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, or the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Chinese, or even the Javanese...
...gnarly, totally awesome -- and the plot steamrolls over lesser details like setting and characterization. Chapters are short and end in suspense, luring readers with short attention spans to forge onward. The level of violence ranges from the implied to the horrific, and the bloodier bits are sometimes mitigated by context: it was all a dream, the demonic villain got what was coming to him, etc. Explicit sex is largely forbidden...