Word: leone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leon Wieseltier lamented this development in The New Republic: "'Schindler's List' proves again that, for Spielberg, there is a power in the world that is greater than good and greater than evil, and that is the movies...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...would take a year to repair I-10, he asked, "What do we have to do to fix it in less time?" And he assures his hosts, "We have no intention, none, of letting this be a short-term thing." Pause. Soon, he says, he and Budget Director Leon Panetta will "go back to Washington and figure out how to pay for it." He is smiling, but this is obviously not a joke...
Consider. On the day he dies, Leon Trotsky sits at his desk, a mountaineer's ax protruding from his head, and muses on mortality nine different ways. Philip Glass visits a bakery to buy some bread, and the scene is replayed as a chanted Glass opera. In a cage, three monkeys grouse at their typewriters, condemned to stay there till one of them pounds out Hamlet. A fellow at a restaurant can never get what he wants unless he orders something else, because he is in a twilight funk called "a Philadelphia." In The Universal Language, Ives' warmest, newest sketch...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...