Word: fated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story begins when Bodoni, a “sixtyish” antiquarian book-dealer whose name Eco appears to have taken from the eighteenth-century typographer, awakes from a coma with no memory of his former life or identity. Through some loophole in the threads of fate, however, he knows all of Western literature and a good deal of history and popular psychology par coeur...
...take a tonga (a horse-drawn cab) from Connaught Place and pass out of the city in minutes into this ruin-strewn countryside. Today, of course, things are different. In the past century, New Delhi's population has grown from some 200,000 to over 15 million, and the fate of those ruins is most uncertain in a city where one-quarter of the populace live in slums and one-third have no sanitation; city officials, understandably, have other priorities. Already, most of the ruins seen by Franklin have disappeared. Those that remain stand not in open countryside, but atop...
...Already, one of the most beautiful legacies of India's colonial past?the bungalows in New Delhi designed by the great Edwin Lutyens?are fast disappearing: all those in private hands were demolished between 1980 and 2000. Last autumn, India's Central Public Works Department announced that the same fate now awaits the Lutyens bungalows owned by the government?despite the fact that the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage is currently proposing that Lutyens' New Delhi be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The destruction of probably the world's greatest colonial townscape would...
...culture must be appeased. After we are done with the ceremonial self-flagellation (or, if I am mistaken, a more emphatic purging such as People Power or a coup), we will settle back to a comfortable regime of elastic rules and mediated processes. It is our culture?and our fate...
...FRANKENSTEIN; SOME READERS MIGHT COMPLAIN, BUT IT'S A GREAT FILM." Less impressed was Alexander Shectman of Jerusalem, who said, "My Russian patriotism was offended by the absence of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, and I was astonished to see that those of D.W. Griffith shared the same fate. And yet you included Leni Riefenstahl's documentary of the 1936 Olympics!" You can check out the list, send us your thoughts and vote for your own favorite films at time.com/100movies....