Word: retold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good. Kaplan and Sanborn, now seeking the backing of a giant like Microsoft or America Online to develop Dysson and offer it to the public, may be evolving a new interactive art form. But they've also retold the Internet's oldest cautionary tale: Online exchanges may be virtual, but the emotions they provoke are quite real...
...with the country that saved her and fulfilled its promise of unlimited promise. But she has had reason to suspect for some years now that even she didn't know the whole story. And if she is distracted tonight, it may be because the story she has told and retold, the story that makes people cry when she is introduced at speeches, will by morning have been rewritten...
...there, Jane Austen!", the Bard is back in maximum force. There are two films based on Romeo and Juliet: one using the text but transplanted to a Miami-esque beach town; the other, Love Is All There Is, set in the Bronx and retold by writer-directors Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor. Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Trevor Nunn has a Twelfth Night starring Helena Bonham Carter and Nigel Hawthorne. Richard III, recently modded up by Ian McKellen, gets the Al Pacino treatment in Looking for Richard...
...visited after the unsuccessful 1993 rebellion failed to dislodge him from the Kremlin. Back then, conditions in the city were improving after decades of shortages, but residents still remembered taking the four-hour "sausage train" to Moscow simply to purchase basic foodstuffs, and the old Soviet-era joke was retold regularly: "Do you have meat here?" a customer asks. "No," says the shopkeeper. "Here we don't have fish; it's at the other store that they don't have meat." Yeltsin was nevertheless the triumphant victor over revanchism, and in Yaroslavl that day he was hailed joyously...
Donald is an excellent historian and writer, not to mention the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography. Fortunately, Lincoln's life is interesting enough that even when retold in Donald's careful, dry and factual way it holds the reader's attention for all 600 pages. Lincoln is an excellent, extremely informative biography that has deservedly been hailed as the best in a generation and among the best of all time...