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...instance, newly selected fellow J.R. Moehringer, the Atlanta bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, has studied American civilization and the post-World War II period. Kirstin Downey Grimsley, a writer for the Washington Post, brings with her a background in economics, labor laws, immigration and class issues...
Characters in Wargnier's films are subservient to the plot. Like pictures in a textbook, they become concrete incarnations of the political and historical contexts where Wargnier puts them. In his latest film, East-West, Wargnier has chosen post-World War II Russia as the setting of another ambitious story of epic proportions. Events are presented in a more focused and coherent fashion than in Indochine, characters have more depth and credibility, but the film does not escape Wargnier's predilection for clichs and characters whose personal attributes are secondary to their role as symbols of his political and moral...
Filled with post-World War I disillusionment and despair, this allusive, fragmented epic became a touchstone of modern sensibility, and its haunting, haunted language sang the passing of old certainties in a century adrift. RUNNERS-UP The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats; Home Burial by Robert Frost...
...rise to it and who now deserve their money back--to do with as they see fit. As a Wall Street Journal editorial-page headline framed the issue last week, WHOSE SURPLUS IS IT, ANYWAY? Indeed, Americans now pay an amount in taxes equal to 20.7% of gdp, a post-World War II high that is up from just over 18% 10 years ago. Nor are many economists bummed by the fact that most of the benefits that would flow from the G.O.P. cuts would accrue to upper-bracket taxpayers, since they have been the hardest hit by tax increases...
...fact, Ashbery, whose writing career began post-World War II, was part of a trend towards non-representational art and music at the time, Shoptaw says. His poetry was unique in writing circles, however; contemporary poetry was largely "mired in describing ordinary experience, and especially ordinary suburban experience," Shoptaw says...