Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I was very young when I first heard the word communist. The 13th Dalai Lama had left a testament that I read. Also, some of the monks who were helping my studies had been in monasteries with Mongolians. They had talked about the destruction that had taken place since the...
More than 50 years ago, George Orwell wrote a simple beast fable about a revolution devolving from idealism ("All animals are equal") to oppression ("...but some animals are more equal than others"). It's a sign of Animal Farm's power that it has never been wholly palatable. During World...
But before this adaptation sullies the story with a new, supposedly upbeat epilogue, the animagicians of Jim Henson's Creature Shop use the technology that gave us Babe and countless taco commercials to create a stunning live-action version (TNT, Oct. 3, 8 p.m.). The challenge in bringing Animal Farm...
A Star Called Henry (Viking; 343 pages; $24.95), Roddy Doyle's new novel about the birth of the modern Irish nation, begins with the vivid miseries of its hero, young Henry Smart, who is named for a dead brother whom his grieving mother can't forget. The time is the...
Survival was once a struggle for the goddess. Her 1,000-year-old temple was razed by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. The temple reopened only in 1988. "For 50 years, the government has fought against religion," says Patrice Fava, a French anthropologist working in Beijing. "Religion has been...