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...Director Martin Scorsese recalls the big-band era. His is not the actual historical period, of course; on V-J day, 1945, when the film begins, Scorsese was two, and Scriptwriter Earl Mac Rauch, who devised the original story, was not yet born. What Scorsese is evoking is an epoch of moviemaking: the heyday of lavish studio musicals...
...region of deep inlets and fir forests south of Anchorage, the Kenai Fjords area is notable for bird-covered cliffs and a vast population of mountain goats and sea mammals. It also has the remnant of an icefield formed during the Pleistocene epoch, which ended some 10,000 years...
...begun a couple of years ago in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Once again the setting is the Middle Ages. Once again the medieval world is seen as all ignorance, blood and excrement. Once again chivalry and romance are viewed as aristocratic conceits designed to make an ugly epoch palatable to the more delicate sensibilities of the time?and to latter-day observers of history...
This takeover participant agrees that since the early seventies, the University has started to admit relatively more black applicants from professional, upper class families. Doe is a native of Georgia who grew up in an epoch when he says segregation was still a legal institution and lynchings an occasional horror; he believes that Harvard students--black and white--no longer realize that black students come from a "different type of political reality," regardless of their economic and financial backgrounds. Doe laments the changing attitudes of black students at the University. He recalls going to a reception for black freshmen this...
...steelbound auditoriums shuttling back and forth between continents or coasts, an experience that comes no closer to free flight than watching a rerun of Twelve O'Clock High. But as British Science Writer Peter Haining relates in his delightful chronicle of man-powered flight, a handful in every epoch have defied gravity without the aid of motor...