Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the narrative, the authors provide fascinating reminiscences by eyewitnesses: a woman recalls a Wright brothers test flight in 1904; a man remembers the 1920s heyday of the Harlem Renaissance; a magazine writer covers the launch--and explosion--of the shuttle Challenger...
Engaging as it is, Evans' brisk newsreel is disappointingly too selective. His only reference to the Wright brothers, for example, is made not in the context of the birth of the age of flight but in a photo caption showing Teddy Roosevelt sitting in a pusher plane in 1910. Elvis Presley, who wrought a different kind of revolution, is not mentioned...
...seem to have glossed over the fact that on that beautiful Thursday morning we sent the same man on the same trip he made 36 years ago. It is as if we had a great big back-slapping national jamboree at Kitty Hawk in 1939 to watch the Wright brothers skim the sand in a new biplane...
...commentary on the death of privacy and the growing difficulty of hiding personal peccadilloes, "Sin in the Global Village" [ESSAY, Oct. 19], Robert Wright says the prospect of constant surveillance is terrifying. Allow me the following comment: living in London, I have become exceedingly accustomed to constant surveillance, but who watches over those who watch us? PAUL VAN ZIJL London...
...give director Edward Zwick and his fellow screenwriters, Lawrence Wright and Menno Meyjes, credit for complicating their material, and therefore our responses to it, in ways that go well beyond the demands of the genre. They give us an FBI agent in charge of the case--played by that paragon of sexy stalwartness, Denzel Washington--whose heroism lies largely in his ability to reconsider hasty conclusions. They provide him with an assistant of Arab descent (a quietly smoldering Tony Shalhoub), caught in a conflict between duty and disgust when the soldiery snatches his son because he happens to match...