Word: echo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history, always a tricky business, given the manifold ambiguities and contradictions of human behavior. A similar task awaits whoever gets to adjudicate a recently filed lawsuit alleging that Spielberg and his colleagues are, to put it baldly, plagiarists--that they swiped their vision of the Amistad tale from Echo of Lions, a little-known historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud...
Does anyone have title to history? With their shared basis in fact, there are obviously a lot of similarities between Echo of Lions and Amistad. But judging from the film's shooting script, the two works are vastly different in tone, structure and dramatic focus. Echo of Lions has moments of empathic brilliance but suffers from not knowing which events deserve emphasis. The Amistad script is the sleek, A-list product--riveting, literate, conventional...
...lady vacuuming alone in Wadsworth House saw a grim character in a Tricorn hat and cloak silently come down the stairs and go out the door; another report describes the sounds of a phantom dinner party that filled the corridor by the southwest corner of University Hall, a displaced echo of the dining hall that occupied the building in the 19th century; and some remember hearing Bill Gannon, former sexton of Christ Church, claim that a British soldier who was thrown from a wagon while passing in front of the church occassionally rises from his grave in the basement...
...toward a teenager whose face pokes through the shattered window. "We'll find who did that, and we'll work with that person," he says. "We can address them because most of us were raised in these projects." He pauses, then offers a comment that his colleagues would surely echo. "You know, you really have to love this neighborhood to stay here...
...people with other people, like families and friendships and religion. Perhaps the best thing about the music of the British trip-hop group Portishead, and the Icelandic pop diva Bjork, is that it sounds futuristic but never inhuman. Portishead's new album, Portishead, and Bjork's latest CD, Homogenic, echo with sounds that could belong to the next millennium. But both are also suffused with a soulfulness that is timeless...