Word: reworks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Snow was knocked over by Tropical Storm Agnes. Floodwaters damaged 135 miles of track in upstate New York. Directors saw the disaster as the last straw for the cash-starved line and filed for bankruptcy. President Gregory Maxwell hoped that by putting off all debt repayments, the Erie could rework its "unwieldy and overburdening debt structure...
...ruins, Brill tries to poke home the author's moral: Look at what becomes of people who worship gold, the "sun's excrement," instead of the sun. Alas, Bourjaily's real message is this: Nobody is likely to become extinct faster than American novelists trying to rework Lost Generation formulas in the age of Aquarius...
Unlike Baillie, Gershfield appears unable or unwilling to go beyond the collective mythology, and that's a shame because he's really talented. His willingness to rework the old myths, admittedly in an exciting fashion, and his acceptance of the elegiac as the proper tone for treating America's Indian peoples are admissions not only of his limitation as an artist, but corporate liberalism's failure to reach its own fictions and remake the world. This should be, though it won't be, the last elegy for the American Indian; what we need now are films that remake both...