Word: interregnum
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...easy to lose sight of the long centuries -- there were eight of them -- that separate the heroes of the Trojan War from the age of Socrates and Aeschylus, which paid homage to them. Much of what lay between was not an unbroken line of glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that lasted three centuries, when even the alphabet was lost, and then a long, slow crawl back up to the light...
...horrible and inevitable conclusion, Prick Up Your Ears is a surprisingly life-affirming film. The terrible deaths Orton and Halliwell meet do not hang over the story, and unlike other arty pictures with similar endings--Betty Blue comes to mind--life is not treated as an unnatural interregnum until death. Prick Up Your Ears joyously proclaims Orton's unbridled exuberance, not his untimely and truly tragic demise...
When Lorne Michaels left the show after five seasons, along with what was left of the original cast and writing staff, the show lost not only its keenness but its momentum. An interregnum presided over by a talent coordinator who was referred to as the "Ayatullah Doumanian" may have been television's most public and widely publicized embarrassment since My Mother the Car. From 1981 to 1985, Producer Dick Ebersol got the show back on a firmer, though slicker, course from which Eddie Murphy busted loose, as did his pal Joe Piscopo. Then Ebersol left, and Michaels, with...
Along with seven associates, including his brother, Edwards is charged in connection with a scheme to obtain state "certificates of need" for hospitals and nursing homes during the interregnum between his second and third terms and then sell them to legitimate corporations for millions of dollars. The case has become less a dispute over facts than a collision of political cultures. Edwards freely allows that he reaped nearly $2 million from the deals for maybe half an hour's work. He was unable to cite anything palpable that he had done to earn the money, saying only that...
...income of millions of peasants. Their ambitions, moreover, seem almost limitless: they aim to quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise per capita annual income from the present $300 to $800 by the year 2000. "Deng sees the Mao era as an interregnum between dynasties," notes a Western diplomat in Peking. "He sees his own epoch as the real beginning of the People's Republic...