Word: rediscoverer
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Unfortunately, it requires a great whirring and clanking of plot machinery to make us believe this Peter is the One True Peter. The sounds of still more noisy manufacturing accompany the creation of a father-offspring conflict and the maneuvering of the Banning clan back to Gran's house. There...
George Dyson has set himself a task even more difficult than preserving the wisdom of a vanishing culture: reviving an art that is already lost. The son of a Princeton physicist, Dyson, 38, was fascinated by 18th century accounts of Aleutian kayakers, who were said to have sustained speeds of...
One shudders to think what Saturday Night Live would do with these scenes. But there is no smirking among the participants. "When is the last time you danced with another man?" asks Paul, a family man who drove two hours from Connecticut to be there. "It tells you how many...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ: RECORDINGS 1930-1951 (Angel/EMI). This is the three-disc set to which posterity will turn to rediscover Horowitz's genius. In much of his later recording, musical lines are twisted into pretzels and strewn with the salt of neurotic fussiness. Here, both in large-scale major works (Liszt...
That political declaration is the bittersweet legacy of an environmental degradation so sweeping that it has touched the smallest corners of the world. It is in just such places that people like Castillo have come to rediscover -- in votes, petitions and protests at the county courthouse -- the effectiveness of the...