Word: scrolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing. It may be too much to expect 27 rewrites, but one more scroll through the laptop might have tightened things up. Beyond this quibble, however, 'Monster' contains more than enough cautionary experience to be a required text for anyone thinking about leaving his day job to write the great American screenplay...
...like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing. It may be too much to expect 27 rewrites, but one more scroll through the laptop might have tightened things up. Beyond this quibble, however, 'Monster' contains more than enough cautionary experience to be a required text for anyone thinking about leaving his day job to write the great American screenplay...
...versions of Shakespeare plays, "and a trivia quiz on such things as how many meals we'd eaten, with prizes that Melinda and Bill handed out." When relaxed, Buffett says, Gates has a fun sense of humor. In the Forbidden City they were given a show of huge ancient scrolls that were silently rolled and unrolled by women trained for the task. "There's a $2 fine," Gates whispered, "if you return a scroll not rewound...
...face of this tangle of politico-cultural emotions, concessions had to be made. The 11th century painting often considered to be the greatest masterpiece of Northern Sung dynasty landscape, Fan K'uan's Travelers Amid Streams and Mountains, stayed in Taipei, as did the hardly less important scroll by Kuo Hsi, Early Spring, 1072, which graces the catalog's cover. Moreover, there are time limits within the show itself. Its paintings and calligraphies--because of their age and fragility--have to be removed and replaced periodically by others of similar quality and era during the show...
...papyrus of St. Luke's Gospel in a Paris library "was written between A.D. 63 and A.D. 67." That papyrus, certainly the oldest of this Gospel, belongs to the late 1st or early 2nd century. The approximate dates of the four oldest Gospel papyri are as follows: the Qumran scroll fragment 7Q5 of St. Mark's Gospel was written sometime before A.D. 68, the Magdalen papyrus of St. Matthew's Gospel was written around A.D. 66, the fragment in Paris of St. Luke's Gospel is late 1st or early 2nd century, and the famous St. John's papyrus...