Word: historicization
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The same scene figured prominently in the '50s technicolor classic, Cimmarron, based on a novel by Edna Ferber. And although Howard's sweeping images of the historic land rush are not significantly different from those in Cimmarron, his decision to shoot his movie in 70mm film is invaluable to conveying...
By all rights Bill Clinton should have felt on top of the world last week after sweeping the last coast-to-coast crazy quilt of six state primaries. The Arkansas Governor eliminated Jerry Brown by winning 48% to 40% in his home state of California, and consequently clinched the Democratic...
Sarajevo burns and the world watches. The first serious shooting war to erupt in the heart of Europe in 40 years elicits protests and admonitions, Security Council resolutions and embargoes, but nothing that stops the carnage. In Croatia, where a U.N. cease-fire is supposed to have ended the fighting...
Growing up, Kevin spent a part of each of his summers in Louisiana, where his mother was raised, and in the summer before college, he began to recognize it as a locus for his poetry. In the summer of 1988, he says, "I fell in love with [the Pulitzer-Prize...
And the album is produced by -- can this be right? -- the Smithsonian Institution? Aren't they the earnest scholars who compile hours of field hollers and other historic folk music? Yes, but in 1971 the Smithsonian began moving gradually into mainstream pop and jazz, first by mail order and, since...