Word: diese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The characters of Zelda's later stories remain gently loosened from reality. Gay, "The Original Follies Girl," masquerading in her jewelry, travels from continent to continent, shocking her admirers and searching for "the recherche." Sadly, she dies,
The patriarch's autumn ends, he dies, we the crowd rejoice. Politically, socially, Marquez' ending might seem naive. The bureaucracy that will replace the general will be no better. But the book's politics, like its language or imagery, transcend such judgment. Like the Iliad or the Tain. Autumn is...
Dies Atra. The ancient Romans had a name for days when the world seemed to turn itself upside down. And that's a fairly accurate description of what happened to the conventional wisdom last Saturday, when the Ivy scoreboard overturned the predictions of the Ivy soothsayers in an almost unbelievable...
The current attitude toward emotions is a notable switch from the 1960s, when self-help books usually advised readers to express whatever they happened to feel. Now the advice is to choose one's emotions. If a person loses a job or a loved one dies, he or she...
The Passenger is Antonioni at his most pretentious. Jack Nicholson assumes the identity of an international gunrunner who dies in his hotel in the African bush and for a few scenes it appears that the film may develop into a compelling spy thriller. But no such luck--Antonioni isn't...