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...remarkable century in history. Perhaps more than any other publication, it has watched, wept and sung about the extraordinary people and events of the past 75 years. This week, as we celebrate our birthday, we pay tribute not only to those people and events but also to the varied, vivid form they have taken in our pages...
...faded into the great jigsaw of constantly reassorting viruses. Until lately, the epidemic had almost disappeared from our collective memory as well, prompting Crosby to title his history The Forgotten Epidemic. Among flu experts, however, its mysteries are still current and utterly significant. It has always stood as a vivid warning of what the next pandemic could be like. What made the virus so lethal? Why was it able to kill so quickly? And where in nature did it originate...
...struggle between Maggs and Oates, a character obviously based on Dickens and lacking only the original's extenuating genius, forms the stem of Carey's plot. But, as befits a mock-19th century novel, there are many fascinating exfoliations. All of Carey's major characters come equipped with vivid childhoods--not just Maggs, thrown on a Thames mud flat as an infant and adopted in order to be trained as a thief, or Oates, humiliated and impoverished young by a feckless father. There is also Mercy Larkin, who befriends Maggs and who was sent into prostitution when barely more than...
Perhaps the imposing stature of Widener library would foster more vivid memories of a just-completed tour. According to Ms. Sojehn, "Mr. Widener was a swimmer for Harvard and was killed on the Titanic." This of course made her wonder about the strength of the swimming program here at Harvard...
...things that blow up in the night--can there be another way to make movies? Yes, in this lyrical fable of a woman who literally lives in the weave of a carpet while she awaits her lost love. Iran's Mohsen Makhmalbaf is a weaver too, of sweet dreams, vivid colors and magical filmmaking...