Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ozment, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, says he is concerned that that a world history course would simply have to cover too much material. Both Western history and world history classes, are, by definition, survey courses, requiring vast amounts of information to be condensed into the span of a year. Naturally, the amount of information in a world history class is much greater...
...House after the G.O.P. had endured four decades in the wilderness not knowing such basic things as the name of the Capitol police chief. As a young legislator, he made his mark on the House floor after-hours, when it was almost empty except for the C-Span cameras. He was a grinning nobody, the head of a band of brothers called the Conservative Opportunity Society--he and Bob Walker and Connie Mack and then Congressman Trent Lott, and they didn't have a dollar and didn't know nobody and acted like a bunch of kids in a clubhouse...
...face is ruddy from the wind and the sun, and he's smiling broadly. His new boxed set, Tracks (Columbia), featuring 66 songs, 56 of them previously unreleased, is due in stores this Tuesday, and Springsteen is eager to talk about it. The songs on the four-CD set span his career; a great many of them are strong songs, perhaps even hit songs, but they are songs that were left off Springsteen's albums nonetheless, for space reasons, thematic reasons and sometimes no good reason at all. "One reason I was interested in doing this is I wanted this...
...Pleasantville, a '50s TV show somewhere between "Leave it to Beaver" and "The Donna Reed Show." For him, it offers an escape from his less-than-idyllic real life to a haven where the weather is always sunny, everybody is gainfully employed and lives in a spick-and-span house with a white picket fence, and the main characters enjoy the kind of secure, comfortable family life he's never known. His obsession with Pleasantville borders on the pathological, or, in the eyes of his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), the merely pathetic. But thanks to the intercession of a cheerfully...
...Goya he wasn't, nor a Velazquez, nor a Titian. An American Picasso, maybe? No: the oeuvre lacks that vast span. For someone who had the impact on international art that he did, Pollock had a bafflingly short career. He didn't attain any degree of originality until after his 30th birthday. The arc of the career rises from 1943, when the collector and gallery owner Peggy Guggenheim commissioned him to paint a mural for her Manhattan apartment, to the early '50s--no more than 10 years. The final four years of his life brought a string of pictorial failures...