Word: withing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. Devotees waited 17 years for the author to outdo his apocalyptic Gravity's Rainbow (1973). What they got instead was a kinder, gentler Pynchon. This saga of wilting '60s flower children, circa 1984, on the lam from federal narcs, displays much of the author's old...
C.S. Lewis: A Biography by A.N. Wilson. Comic novels, essays and biographies waft from Wilson with Mozartean ease. Each book seems better than the last, or at least different in some incomparable way. Such is the case with his approach to Lewis, the British writer and celebrator of Christian thought...
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro. The second installment of what promises to be the longest and liveliest American political biography of modern times finds Lyndon Johnson transforming what were certainly not his finest hours into tarnished triumphs. To wit: avoiding World War II combat for as long as...
Cinema Paradiso A little boy in a small Italian town serves as acolyte to the keeper of the flame -- the projectionist in the local theater. With graceful sentiment, director Giuseppe Tornatore evokes the magic by which our first films grasp at memory.
Dick Tracy Warren Beatty and a brilliant crew turn comic-strip art into glamorous movie artifice. This is not only a straightforward rendering of the story about the big-city dick with a right-angle jaw; it is also a tribute to the lithe, blithe entertainment that Hollywood once served...