Word: litted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distrust his instinct to ridicule horror novels. But in each genre there is good trash and bad trash, and King's does not seem very good. Mention this to a fan -- young, intelligent, well read -- and the reply is the same as is heard, above the level of pop lit, when one more dismal fiction by Joyce Carol Carol Oates appears: "Yes, but you should read the early books...
...Lit and Arts C-14: "Heroes...
Whether we are talking about ethnic minorities, Groton grads, hockey players or Lit. majors, lack of diversity in housing hurts everyone...
...condemned and the reformer's conviction that it was a condition to be remedied. Riis, like Mathew Brady, had a team of photographers (and like Brady, took credit for their work). Shooting in gloomy alleys and sunless rooming houses, he and his colleagues became pioneers of flash-lit photography -- a delicate undertaking in those days when the newly invented magnesium flash powder had to be poured into an open pan and then ignited with a flaming bang. "Twice I set fire to the house with my apparatus," Riis later recorded calmly, "and once to myself...
...cast or crew of Alice in Wonderland: Film at Eleven is about to leave you guessing whether or not you will see a spectacle. The action, for example, begins with four Beatlesque Tweedledees singing something of a disclaimer on a giant chess board, lit in blue, that rises up into the air and ends bordered by a giant tree stump on the left and a plump mushroom on the right...