Word: realm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alan Moorehead's White Nile and Blue Nile. Unlike the Nile, the Congo held no fascination for Europeans. It was discovered almost by accident by the Portuguese mariner Diogo Cao, who sailed into its mouth in 1482 while searching for, among other things, the kingdom of Prester John, whose realm had been the object of crusades for centuries...
...long as Trevor-Roper remains within the realm of these Backhousian mysteries, his truth about the method to the madness of the hermit of Peking rings true. In this context, the author's contention that Backhouse spent his life imaginatively substituting himself for those who were intimate with Verlaine, Lord Rosebery, the Empress Dowager, and other sources of power, is convincing...
...past decade, Frederick Wiseman has been examining American institutions in a series of documentaries (High School, Welfare) that are both provocative political statements and innovative works of film. In Canal Zone, one of his best efforts, the director travels to an American realm that is far removed from most of our lives. The results are unexpectedly harrowing. In the sunny landscape of a distant Army enclave in Panama, Wiseman finds a nightmare vision of America itself...
...hackneyed plot. Damn the filmmaker who tries to weave too many new wrinkles into the same plot to justify the whole enterprise, thus producing a convoluted pattern that exceeds the limits of our credulity. Claude Chabrol has earned these conflicting reactions from his latest venture into the realm of the film noir, Dirty Hands, and his ultimate failure amounts to a minor tragedy. Seeing the 1976 release leaves you with the initial thought that Chabrol came so close to making a reasonably competent suspense thriller, only to blow it in the final minutes, when the money was really...
...prior exposure to the disease, had no natural defenses. Soon hundreds of new cases were being reported annually. The panic that had swept Europe during its epidemics centuries earlier was repeated in Hawaii. In 1865, King Kamehameha V ordered all lepers confined to the most desolate part of his realm, the volcanic, 14-sq.-mi. peninsula of Kalaupapa jutting northward from the coast of Molokai. The first 35 patients were landed in January 1866, with no more food and clothing than they could carry on their backs...