Word: reconstructionism
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When moviegoers receive history lessons from film, they are often given with a journalistic detachment, whether fictional accounts or documentaries. But Irene Lusztig’s ’97 first feature-length film, Reconstruction, achieves its historical perspective through exactly the opposite methods. Made with a uniquely personal purpose...
Reconstruction hinges on an account of the “Ioanid Gang” bank heist of 1959, in which six prominent Jewish intellectuals robbed an armored car with over one million lei on its way to a branch of the Romanian National Bank in Bucharest. The title refers to...
After World War II, reconstruction of iconic buildings was a major civic project in some bombed-out European cities, a way of affirming continuity and triumph over death. Vienna, for example, spent decades rebuilding the medieval Cathedral of St. Stephen.
In the heavy heat of election eve, workers continued laying floor tiles at the new National Council Hall, where the leaders of independent East Timor will sit under brightly colored traditional tais cloths. With little political experience, and a winding down of the U.N. and international presence that has overseen...
Until now, the most effective limits on the water trade have been economic. Compared with the costs of shipping freshwater by sea, "it's still cheaper to get freshwater by other means, even by desalinization of seawater," admits Turner of WaterBank.com But Turner, who is assembling a consortium of Mexican...