Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Patchwork language is an essential part of Author Russell Hoban's story. Hoban, 55, who has written children's books and three previous novels, sets Riddley Walker in the southeast corner of England, some 2,500 years into a badly damaged and degraded future. A nuclear holocaust, which occurred near the end of the 20th century, has forced civilization to start over again at ground zero. Progress has been slow. People huddle together in small enclaves, fighting off the elements, packs of killer dogs and occasionally, one another. A semblance of central government exists in the person...
Image presents a candid mosaic of Jewish life in Poland. What emerges from the film's patchwork is a coherent portrait of a flourishing culture. Aspiring writers flock to Warsaw to study under Y.L. Peretz, the dean of Yiddish literature. In the town of Vilna, the Jewish community establishes schools for the mentally retarded and for orphans. In the shtetls, the townfold engage in lively commerce and conform to the letter of well-rooted traditions. The Jews are politically animated. The heirs of the Enlightenment try to balance universal values with continuing Jewish particularism (the "problem" of minority separatism...
...course in patchwork, pluralistic America, different classes and ethnic groups are perched at different stages in the work hierarchy. The immigrants-legal and illegal-who still flock densely to America are fighting for the foothold that the jogging tribes of self-actualizers achieved three generations...
...lone, dilapidated building proclaims. "Atlantic City, you're back on the map--again," while in a spectacular shot before the credits director Louis Malle shows us an aerial view of a massive stucco hotel collapsing into a heap of dust and rubble. Malle's Atlantic City is a patchwork of the old corruption and the new, numbers-runners and cocaine dealers, rickety frame houses and opulent casinos, aging beauty queens and female croupiers-in-training. There's always some new growth blistering out from the old scar tissue, and by the end of this story of love-and-death...
...cars, boat trailers, CB radios and dogs? The answer is only partly that the National Rifle Association is, by some Senators' estimate, the most effective lobbying organization in Washington and the deadliest at targeting its congressional enemies at election time. The nation now has laws, all right-a patchwork of some 25,000 gun regulations, federal, state and local, that are so scattered and inconsistent as to be preposterously ineffectual...