Word: panorama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outpost of Lawrence, Kans., in the tumultuous year of 1855. Lawrence is a raw, ill-favored roost of newly arrived Free Soil settlers, jostled by drunken proslave irregulars from Missouri and protected, mostly with words, by gassy politicians. John Brown and his terrible sons, the focus of Banks' harsh panorama, are just out of sight in Smiley's account, raiding and murdering...
...pretty picture, a pleasing panorama for the alumni benevolent or prominent enough to have merited an invitation to the anniversary events. The returns for Harvard are likely to be numerous, at least in terms of birthday donations and receipts from the licensing of commemorative merchandise. But for all the planning, the repainting of buildings and history alike, the most visible return thus far has been the attention. Cover stories, documentaries and special publications abound, and 900 journalists from around the world are here to record this week of revelry...
...closure wasn't quite at hand. On Thursday, June 27, she and Capano had a $154 dinner at Ristorante Panorama, a posh Philadelphia waterfront eatery. A waitress described Fahey as "solemn" and wearing a "forced smile." Fahey had reason to want to move on. According to friends, she had finally found happiness with a man her age, bank executive Mike Scanlan, now 33, whom she met through Carper. She had begun daydreaming about bridesmaid dresses and had got a grip on a long struggle with bulimia (the 5-ft. 10-in. Fahey reportedly once dropped...
...sure, history is hardly a pristine, purist endeavor. The historian can never completely recreate the past. But he can provide a snapshot or even a panorama of it. History is multi-directional--just as we influence history, so too does history influence us. This is not to deny a standard of historical veracity to which we should aspire. History is a "creative" field in that its purpose is to uncover creatively what occurred in the past, to the greatest degree of accuracy possible...
...director Jean-Jacques Annaud does deprive the audience of emotional stimulation of any kind, whether from cinematography or character development, until Harrer reaches Tibet. In one tense mountain-climbing scene in the Himalayas (or "Himilias," as Pitt refers to them), we see no panorama and remarkably little scenery in frame. Annaud keeps only the climbers in shot, and instead of majestic mountainscapes, only the snow and gray, gravely rock for a backdrop...