Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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" Serguei Kotov, the central figure of Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov's film, which won this year's Best Foreign Film Oscar, is an aging hero of the Bolshevik revolution now living quietly on a country dacha with his beautiful young wife and adoring child. Into an almost unbearably beautiful day...
You're ready for the daily double if you responded: 1) Who is Claude Francois Denecourt, nicknamed "le Silvain"? 2) What is Mons Pilatus in the Swiss Alps? and 3) What is Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama? Author of iconoclastic, groundbreaking studies of the French Revolution (Citizens) and the...
ROBERT HUGHES' ESSAY "TAKE THIS REVOLUTION ..." was the best piece in your special issue. Like Hughes, I am no Luddite; I am writing this letter on my computer. I also share Hughes' skepticism about the Internet; I do not go online, but I survive anyway. I enjoy having contact with...
In setting out to solve a paramount contemporary American conflict, Lerner and West take on a heavy burden. Unfortunately, both attack the problem with a hostile pessimism through which they call for socialist revolution. The workers of the world might be more equal under a socialist regime, but that does...
In his quest for the ultimate stage act, Tommy encounters singing dogs, transvestite ballerinas and most disturbingly, his past. A series of eerie black and white flashback scenes sends him straight into the rubber arms of Jack and the Parker brothers. When past and present ultimately face off, Chelsom's...