Word: revisionists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the best musicals on Broadway are so often the old ones, but when you leave the theater on such a high, it's hard to complain. Bernadette Peters frees Irving Berlin's Annie Oakley from the iron grip of Ethel Merman in Graciela Daniele's revisionist production. Michael Blakemore plays it straighter with Kate but gives stars Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie a terrific showcase...
...prime political targets for the disgruntled - is not the best way for a rich kid to combat a sense of entitlement. Still, Bush's electoral analysis is right on - that's why he also took a moment to flog Donald Trump for the Reform nod, and bash Buchanan's "revisionist history about WWII" for good measure. What, no words for Warren Beatty? The actor pulled a pretty good Hillary in Hollywood on Wednesday night, talking loud - "Is there no protest anymore?" - but staying mum about his own intentions. Beatty's liberal siphon could be as strong as Buchanan's conservative...
...also disagreed with Sofen's assertion that the museum presented revisionist, upside-down "Alice in Wonderland" history. As proof of the museum's inaccuracies, Sofen points to a placard which claims the Emancipation Proclamation allowed Lincoln's in-laws in Kentucky to "legally keep their slaves...
...also disagreed with Sofen's assertion that the museum presented revisionist, upside-down "Alice in Wonderland" history. As proof of the museum's inaccuracies, Sofen points to a placard which claims the Emancipation Proclamation allowed Lincoln's in-laws in Kentucky to "legally keep their slaves...
...women began to elbow their way into the field and develop serious alternatives to the old, male-centered theory of human evolution. It shouldn't matter, of course, what sex the scientist is, but women had their own reasons for being suspicious of the dominant paradigm. The first revisionist blow came in the mid-'70s, when anthropologists Adrienne Zihlman and Nancy Tanner pointed out that among surviving "hunting" peoples, most of the community's calories--up to 70%--come from plant food patiently gathered by women, not meat heroically captured by men. The evidence for Stone Age consumption of plant...