Word: diese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Art Historian Andrée Conrad sees disastermania in sociological terms. In a recent review of 20 catastrophe books for the quarterly Book Forum, she argued that disaster writing and entertainment are safety valves for hostility toward a complicated culture. Says Conrad: "For one exhilarating and guilt-free moment, the...
The other element of animation that illustrates for the uninitiated is the use of cycles. Cycles create the rhythm of a movie: when the same action happens several times in a row, that's a cycle; when there is no action but the lines stay "alive"--they vibrate slightly and...
It may not seem like a larky subject or setting for a musical, but My Old Friends manages to sandwich a wedge of pathos between large slices of jollity. The characters encountered at the Gold en Days, a retirement hotel, are spunky individualists eager to savor the last drops of...
Meanwhile, the king's heir breaks away from the gypsies and lives in hiding. He sings and waits tables for a living and has a strawberry-blonde girlfriend. For him this spells success. However, the gypsy heritage which he uses to woo women comes back to haunt him. His grandfather...
For the next 40 years, until she dies in 1901, Victoria refuses to let Edward, who is portrayed in his maturity by Timothy West, learn the craft of statesmanship or take on any of the duties that normally fall to the Prince of Wales. Edward becomes a public wastrel, negligent...