Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thinking that led to man-the-hunter was largely inferential: if you bring the women along on the hunt, the children will have to come too, and all that squalling and chattering would surely scare off the game. This inference was based on a particular style of hunting, familiar from Hemingway novels and common to the New England woods in October, in which a small band of men trek off into the wild and patiently stalk their prey, a deer or two at a time. But there is another way to get the job done known as "communal hunting...
...great directorial career this award honors--one of the few such in America that actually changed the way people perceive movies--is irrelevant. To them, Kazan, 89, is a traitor who, almost a half-century ago, when anticommunist blacklisting plagued American life in general and show business in particular, "named names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and, worse, has ever since refused to register shame or apology for so doing. To them, precisely because he was the most powerful individual to choose this course, he remains the central symbolic figure in the cautionary political fable they concocted...
...This particular interaction occurred in my first-year entryway (of course) and involved two friends of mine. All I remember is that the conversation involved the phrase "Will you kiss me right...
...seem especially obsessed with a particular era in L.A.'s history, that being the 50s. Why is that...
...This particular interaction occurred in my first-year entryway (of course) and involved two friends of mine. All I remember is that the conversation involved the phrase "Will you kiss me right...