Word: classically
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Hale is an ideal laboratory for the studio's architectural experiment. This region of west-central Alabama is one of the poorest stretches in the nation. The writer James Agee and the photographer Walker Evans passed the summer of 1936 here while preparing their Depression-era classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. While prosperity has come to parts of this area, the region is still dotted with the shacks chronicled in Evans' haunting photographs...
Despite a successful performance at the Harvard Classic last weekend, including two shutout wins over Hartford and Holy Cross, the Crimson (5-5) could not maintain their winning form against the Huskies (9-5) last night...
Crimson sophomore-setter Mindy Jellin spearheaded Harvard's charge with 34 assists and nine digs, riding the wave of her recent success at the Harvard Classic...
...psychological," said Hall, after five world records tumbled on the first night of competition. "Knowing a lot of records have been broken, it creates more." Australia's swimming-crazy fans screamed for gold and generously applauded the achievements of swimmers from all countries. That also helped bring in classic times and close races. "No matter what you've done in your career, the last eight days will never come close to it," said Australian Kieren Perkins, two-time Olympic 1,500-m freestyle champion. "Nothing can beat this venue...
What Joe and Sammy cannot elude is the postwar era. With graphic comic-book imagery, Chabon writes that the classic superhero "had fallen beneath the whirling thresher blades of changing tastes." By the '50s, Kavalier and Clay are not only old hat but also targets of a congressional committee investigating the effects of comic books on children. Then, like Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the real-life team that begat Superman, Chabon's fictional duo lose the rights to their character in a dispute with cutthroat publishers. Screwing the talent is an old story, but never before told with...