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But the message of “Boots” is that while Cameron Cope is forced to hide much of who he is as a Marine recruit, he only comes into his fully realized self through the hardships of boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., circa 1990.

"We're looking for circa £20m from the government to underwrite it," Tomlinson said.

Do we end up “merely” like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an “American Reich”? So far, after years of studying World War II, I fear that America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015.

Imagine the shock, then, when I found myself grinning ear to ear during the final act of Aronofsky’s latest, “Caught Stealing,” a rollicking lark through New York City’s semi-gentrified Lower East Side circa 1998, based on Charlie Huston’s 2005 novel of the same name.

Los Angeles architect Douglas Hanson, who designed the 35-story Circa apartment complex next to Oceanwide Plaza, has an idea to shield people’s gaze from the graffitied towers and bring in some money.