Word: revisionists
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...absolute music that flows from his rival's pen. In this sense, Amadeus is brutally relevant, as it engages the quintessentially post-modern problem of creative importence. More coherant and more powerful than the film it spawned, the play presents itself as a speculative exercise rather than a revisionist biography...
...revisionist assault has taken shape under the guidance of the Committee for a Marseillaise of Fraternity, which is petitioning for a version that cuts - out the nastier bits of gristle and gore. Sponsored by such leading lights as First Lady Danielle Mitterrand and soccer hero Michel Platini, the committee points to the research of Armand Thuair, a former fire fighter who conducted an exhaustive survey of 175 national anthems, purporting to prove that "France is the only country in the world to have adopted and preserved a bellicose national anthem...
This tidbit of -revisionist history was among the student-produced masterpieces described by best-selling author Richard H. Lederer in a speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Education last night...
Throughout his lecture--a revisionist version of history that attributed virtually every success of modern society to the ancient Egyptian civilization of the Nile--Jeffries denied charges that he is a bigot, at one point citing his presidency of a Jewish fraternity while in college as evidence...
...that, I believe, is the real legacy of nearly three decades of revisionist Kennedy-assassination investigation. We may not ever know with certainty the Name or the Names. But we do have a much darker, more complex, less innocent vision of America, produced by the murk that has been churned up by the dissidents...