Word: talese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Edgar Lee Masters' classic novel Spoon River Anthology first appeared in 1915, it had the popular advantage of topicality but was freighted with scandal. Masters had compiled reminiscences portraying all the virtues and vices of small town life during the Civil War and Reconstruction and some of the tales...
After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire. Call it recreational primitivism. But the mind needs its rest too. So we go intellectual backpacking: We dabble in potions and auras...
And as if the plot and acting were not emotionally explicit enough, the dewy score is always there to tell you what to feel. The film is symptomatic of a Hollywood that has forgotten subtlety. The comedies are gross, the thrillers sadistic, the dramas moral tales for preschoolers. At least...
"I was spellbound," Nagy said, complementing Piedrahita's dream of winning a Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship to travel in Argentina documenting folk tales in the hopes of studying his conception of the hero in Spanish-speaking society.
By capturing the excitement of the news and of the people who make it each week, and by recounting in full color the tales and the debates that form the first draft of history, we have the power to make the world--and you, and us--more interesting each week...