Word: epoch
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...Emerson there was "properly no history, only biography." Three new books illustrate his view. Well told, the epic of a life may also be the life of an epoch...
...realizes, as she does not, that the Christian epoch will have no room for a necromancer - or an ironic realist. Mer lin's time has come again in the post-Christian 20th century; it is fitting, then, that Williamson expresses both the juicy effluence of hoary ham acting and the quizzical underplaying of the Method. His Merlin is also a perfect avatar of the sorcerer behind the camera. Love Excalibur or hate it, but give Boorman credit for the loopy grandeur of his imagery and imaginings, for the sweet smell of excess, for his heroic gamble that a movie...
...Central Committee. In theory, they are the party's supreme authority; in fact, they are carefully staged rites that ratify decisions already taken by the Soviet leadership. For weeks billboards had gone up all over Moscow exalting the party as THE MIND, HONOR AND CONSCIENCE OF OUR EPOCH and trumpeting GLORY TO THE HEROES OF LABOR. Food supplies in Moscow stores and restaurants improved, red banners waved along the main thoroughfares, and fleets of ZIL and Chaika limousines roared down reserved lanes...
...supposed to mark the country's full emergence from the dark epoch of Dictator Idi Amin Dada. But Uganda's unruly general election last week, the first in 18 years, only served to plunge the country deeper into its political muddle...
...simple fidelity to detail that has made L'Amour's novels excep tional bestsellers. His popularity keeps growing because, in an epoch of prose experiments and self-conscious narrative, he has never forgotten to spin his yarn. "My books are meant to be read aloud," he says. "I'm a troubadour, a village taleteller. I'm the guy at the end of the bar or in the shadows of the campfire." In the past decade, he has become a kind of Woody Guthrie of fiction, a conservative populist who believes the myths he creates...