Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RANAN LURIE, Neue Zurcher Zeitung I would say Brezhnev. His face was like an ancient map of his character. It reflected so much of his personality and gave you several different ways to express the same features. If once in a blue moon he smiled, it was such a rarity that it was like a scoop. I was impressed with how his viciousness just spread into his face...
...Boyd--who speaks a half-dozen languages--ultimately built a life around the art of English itself, rather than anything so foreign as the phonology of ancient Mesopotamia...
When he came to Harvard College more than 50 years ago, the young Boyd dreamed of someday uncovering an ancient and long-forgotten language and writing about his discovery for the edification of equally obscure academics...
...simple response to this is that the very explosion of ancient literary props in Hollywood shows just how impoverished our contemporary imagination has become: the only way we can find good stories is by going back to Titus Andronicus. Clueless directors find their inspiration in Jane Austen. But this doesn't get around the fact that we're seeing full-dress, four-hour versions of Hamlet now, with Dostoevsky's life story, in The Gambler, on its way this August. And these are not just the playthings of the black berets in art houses; to my alarm, the Academy Awards...
...Expert] On Cleopatra, MARC VAN DE MIEROOP, Professor of Ancient Near East History, Columbia University...