Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PRODUCING AN ADAPTATION of Tom Brown's School Days the British Broadcasting Corporation faced a problem a bit different from the ones it dealt with succesfully in its series on the wives of Henry VIII, which appeared in this country last summer. It was possible to reconstruct the lives of the wives from a variety of sources; Tom Brown's School Days is a fairly well-known book, and any television serial that borrows its title invites a fairly stiff comparison...
That was about as definitive a statement as Washington would allow in a week of rumors. TIME correspondents nevertheless were able to reconstruct much of the final push toward peace and to glean the general outlines of the impending settlement. Despite the relative rush with which the pieces began falling together, a successful outcome had been seriously in doubt at many points along...
...Russell is a director whose appetite for excess verges on petulance. His enterprise in films like The Music Lovers and The Devils was not to reconstruct history but to disembowel it; one felt that if he were to try a biblical spectacular, all the extras would be wearing Mickey Mouse wristwatches. His directorial tone has the subtlety of a timp roll played on an eyeball. A new Russell film, particularly one about an artist (the dramatization of artists' lives being his forte, or rather his fortissimo), is therefore to be approached warily -especially with a title like Savage Messiah...
FOUCAULT'S ARCHAEOLOGY has its source in a fundamental change in the nature of history which he sees beginning with Marx. One aspect of this change involves the historian's attitude toward the document, the record and container of discourses. Once, the historian attempted to reconstruct the past through the document by interpretation and amplification. Now, it is the document itself which has become the historian's object...
...entirely new species. As yet, Jensen's discovery has not been confirmed by other specialists, but he thinks that he can provide even more persuasive evidence. By probing further in the Colorado quarry-"a paleontologist's paradise," he says-Jensen hopes eventually to recover enough bones to reconstruct the entire skeleton of the prehistoric monster...