Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such lapses are seldom in the compelling microcosm of village life Schiffman so skillfully brings to the screen. From the clothes of the peasants and the noblemen to the scenes of women at work in the fields, the movie succeeds in a realistic reproduction of the time, seen through the lens of the mythical tale which the film chronicles...
...committee said that house populations should be a "microcosm" of the University-wide student body in order to give students the "experience of learning from one another." University officials said that major policy moves such as the 1968 decision to make the houses co-ed and recent efforts to put Quad facilities on par with those of River houses were geared toward this...
...collectors and curiosity seekers had milled through Sotheby's showrooms, 10,000 of them on a single day. For some, Warhol's vast collection was a monument to the materialism that the artist enshrined in his Campbell Soup can and Brillo pad artworks. For others, it was a microcosm of one man's obsessive greed. Either way, marveled Writer Fran Lebowitz, wandering around in the nearly two acres of memorabilia was "like being in a theme park...
...enrolled Iowa voters usually participate, and the reported results are sometimes misleading. Drake University Professor Hugh Winebrenner, in a new book on the caucuses, The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event (Iowa State University Press; $15.95), points out that even if his state were a microcosm of the country, the peculiar machinery fails to produce an accurate measure of Iowans' sentiments. "Essentially meaningless caucus outcomes," he argues, "are reported to satisfy the media's needs for 'hard data' about the progress of the race...
...oral history Hard Times. But during pre-Broadway workshops and a Charleston, S.C., tryout, Miller was repeatedly counseled by critics to shift emphasis from a documentary-style montage of vignettes to a focus on a particular family, resembling his own, whose growing deprivation and humiliation reflected the Depression in microcosm. These semiautobiographical characters proved unable by themselves to bear the weight of enormous events; meanwhile, the play's sweep had been diminished, and the tinkering, especially the search for jokes, had drained Clock of guts and vitality...