Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dulling the romantic impulse. Deerfield is a star racing driver whose success is based on a superrationality that requires a cutting off of all emotion. But then a car that is the twin of Deerfield's spins out of control, its driver is horribly hurt in the crash, and reason dictates that Bobby discover what happened in order to avoid a similar fate...
...exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama of the European avant-garde in its most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope-the years between Sarajevo and the Wall Street crash, the time of the Great War, the Russian Revolution and the Weimar Republic. This was the last period in which the dream of the engaged avant-garde seemed credible: that corrupt societies could be toppled and Utopias created with the aid of art. How Dada, surrealism, constructivism and the Bauhaus...
...first there reigns a state of newborn innocence, snuffed out suddenly by the burning of a neighbor's child in a plane crash. "God is a brute and traitor, abandoning us to time," writes Dillard. She despairs of earthly happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm...
...frenetic Charlestoning, the drugs, the sex and the compulsive travelling of the '20s may have been described at great length in the more reputable words of the time. Nevertheless, today, there persists a nostalgia for the glitter and naivete of the decade before the Great Crash that is soon dispelled after reading some of the entries in Crosby's diary...
...Thorn Birds, McCullough (1 last week) 2. The Crash of '79 Erdman (2) 3. Full Disclosure, Safire (4) 4. Illusions, Bach (3) 5. Delta of Venus, Nin (5) 6. Oliver's Story, Segal (8) 7. Trinity, Uris (6) 8. Coma, Cook (9) 9. Dynasty, Elegant (10) 10. Condominium, MacDonald...