Word: spreader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...multimillionaire," he tells a visitor. "I'm president of the town bank. I own five houses and a church too." He is and he does, in this well-barbered hamlet of Hillsboro Center, N.H., a glossy enclave of green lawns and ancient white clapboards, with never a rusty manure spreader or junked '67 Plymouth sagging in the sideyard. His self-pleasure is bubbly and innocent. A visitor asks whether it is true that he takes 20% from each sale. "Yes!" he says, beaming. He is delighted to be ringmaster of the classiest and priciest midsummer auction in a state where...
...interest in fiction overflows into the valid but unoriginal point that the film has taken the novel's place at the center of our culture. This returns her to her theme: "the moving picture...cannot be an idea spreader...A film cannot have a spokesman or chorus character to point the moral." Regardless of the film's "victory" over the novel, this contention would be difficult to maintain; film history, from Triumph of the Will to Norma Rac, proves her wrong...