Word: epochally
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...Tennessee Waltz; Jo Stafford and Shrimp Boats; Rosemary Clooney and Come On-a My House. Elvis, Bobby Darin, Fabian with a slew of golden oldies. At the drive-ins, American Graffiti and The Lords of Flatbush re-create the oleaginous pompadours and switchblade rhetoric of the Shook-Up Epoch. In affluent circles there are Fabulous '50s parties: the debutantes rigged out in calf-length skirts and open-toed, high-heeled numbers, and their dates in narrow ties and pink shirts and trousers that bag at the ankle...
...polished as Henning is, The Magic Show's success lies not with the star but with ourselves. In an epoch of uncertainty, people need a fraud they can believe in. Magic, with its cheerful promise of mountebankery, offers a kind of low comic relief. An audience that is fooled invariably laughs, delighted that its attention has been misdirected. To Magician-Historian Robert Lund, it is "a rebellion against science." To James Randi, it is "a sign that our society is still healthy. When people stop being enthralled by a magician who can make a lady vanish, it will mean...
...Rossif's movie isn't as directly relevant to the fight against the Greek dictatorship as Z was, the connection between what went on in Spain 35 years ago and what's going on in the Mediterranean now is anything but farfetched. Spain marked the end of a peculiar epoch in modern history, a time when intellectuals dared to commit themselves to political causes, to believe passionately in them and to fight for them. It was an heroic era, and Rossif's film is in part a memorial to that heroism. Showings begin at 7 and 9:30, admission...
...moment at least, Israel is steadfastly opposing any conciliatory overtures to the P.L.O. Visiting Nahariya last week, Premier Yitzhak Rabin pledged "an epoch of perpetual war against terrorism." Israel's government so far refuses to deal with any Palestinians except those who live in Gaza or on the West Bank, and then only as Jordanian citizens. The Israeli government will not accept the concept of a Palestinian state except as a demilitarized area under Jordanian control...
Indeed, Shakespeare's themes remain as valid in the epoch of Henry K. as they were in that of Henry V. The vanished English world, like this one, was beset with crises. Scientists had just proved that the sun no longer orbited the earth; skepticism had been imported wholesale from Montaigne's France; religious wars had undermined faith...