Word: anciently
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This may be the most entertaining irony of human affairs. (Literally entertaining - we get any number of our movies, books and TV shows out of it.) In such an ancient predicament, can anything new ever happen? Sure it can. Proposing to tell God himself that he has no right to treat you unjustly was once a big advance (see Book of Job). So were trial by jury and the right to remain silent. So were fingerprinting and dna evidence. So was the electric chair...
...game, the movie plot has Croft setting out in search of an ancient and mystical artifact: in this case, the two components of the Clock of Ages, a dusty device that tracks the alignment of the planets and may help solve the mystery of her father's death. But there are changes in the way Croft goes about her business. Far from being a full-time tomb raider, she now has a day job as a Pulitzer prizewinning photojournalist (why or when she has time to do this is unclear, but cameras and prints are scattered around Croft Manor...
...reluctantly drawn toward the Jewishness that is her birthright, even though her upbringing was secular. Providentially--just maybe--she receives a letter from the long-lost Gary, who is studying the Torah in Jerusalem. Unannounced, Sharon flies there to join him and to narrow her search: "This is the ancient city of Jerusalem; I'm going to get some answers." Alas, Gary is too absorbed in his research to have time for her, and the answers don't arrive...
...there." Her questions, however, are a cockeyed amalgam of Me-generation nostrums: "WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO? HOW MANY BOOKS? HOW MANY JOURNEYS? WHAT ARE THE WORDS AND WHAT KIND OF FOOD? MACRO? MICRO? DO ROOTS FEED THE SOUL? CARROTS, TURNIPS, POTATOES? OR THE ANCIENT SONGS...
Pryor says he tried to save everything. But he recalls colleagues who threw away--even burned--the bulk of their records, a policy he compares to the Taliban's destruction of ancient Afghan statues...