Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play poses--literally--the obvious question: whodunit? Was it the queen, the lady in waiting, the grande dame, or the suspicious antiquarian? The right answer is any of the above. Shear Madness asks the audience to reconstruct the events, interrogate the suspects, and vote on the assassin. The ending of the play is democratically determined. Interactive theater, no less...
...make of "A Thin Blue Line" and "A Brief History of Time," as the most "noticeble" explorer of this question. Both of these films document men's lives: one is the story of someone wrongly accused, the other that of the scientific genius, Steven Hawkins. Both employ hindsight to reconstruct events...
Suppose the monthly inflation rate in the U.S. was 20%, the output of the nation's industries had fallen 15% in a year, unemployment was rising across the country and the government was visibly inept. Suppose California and Texas had seceded, foreign communists were advising how to reconstruct the U.S. government, NATO had been disbanded, all U.S. military bases abroad had been closed and batches of the armed forces' most sophisticated weapons were being sold at bargain rates to former enemies...
...narrator is an obscure descendant of Hannah Easton, a woman named Beigh Masters who has spent eleven years trying to reconstruct Hannah's life, going to obscure museums in Massachusetts and retracing Hannah's trip to India. Beigh also has an Indian lover named Venn, a computer scientist who spends his life attempting to make 'virtual reality' possible. When Beigh has gathered enough information about Hannah's life, Venn will be able to program the computer to create a simulation of Hannah's life. It is unfortunate that this compelling historical novel must be filtered through this ostensibly post-modern...
...this subtle comparison, Doerr undermines the romanticism of the remote foreign hamlet. Loomis, the only involuntary member of the community, alone succeeds in forging a bright future in this brave new world. The others mentally reconstruct Amapolas to match the painting on the book's cover. The local grandee cautions his guest: "Consider this, senora. You are transforming Amapolas into something more beautiful than...