Word: discoverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take Calvin Trillin. Please. At the very least, take his book, a thoroughly diverting novel that nips at the unexposed flanks of the newsmagazine process, particularly the so-called back of the book, where a new sect or fad is no news until the magazine's editors/correspondents discover it...
WITH SUCH dexterity and literary aplomb, the author justifies another Whitman biography. Though the first was written in 1850, even before Leaves of Grass, and many have followed, Kaplan's biography creates the density of Whitman's life in contemporary terms and with the aid of new materials--previoulsy unavailable...
Generational hubris has always been especially robust in the children of the postwar baby boom; their sheer numbers gave many of them a swelling sense of their own inevitability, their unique moral Tightness. Everything they did was done in the incandescent certainty, the grand optical illusion, that it had never...
Just as Bo Derek did not discover the corn row, Jordan Marsh did not discover Chinese quilted jackets. For most Americans this year, however, awareness of Asian culture will come from images that have been projected by the white-male-defined entertainment and business industries. At best, these images are...
Kurosawa undercuts the very idea of meaningful action by consistently cutting away from it. His camera looks over the sleeping army when Shingen is mortally wounded (shot, we later discover, by a tubby little sniper who simply into the dark). Before Ieyasu, Singen's snarling enemy, leaps onto a horse...