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Elizabeth Arnott presents us with three L.A. women who have lived through the last scenario in “The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives,” an empathetic and at times bracing mystery tale about unlikely crime solvers circa 1966.
From Los Angeles Times
According to Star Trek canon—faithfully tracked and documented in online fan-fiction External link — advances in AI and biotechnology generate sustained socio‑economic and political instability in the mid‑2020s, fomenting the rise of hellscape-ish “sanctuary districts External link”—urban developments for the destitute erected amid massive wealth, typified by downtown San Francisco, circa 2024.
From Barron's
That’s right, the so-called rock-n-roll comfort food king — but more accurately the extremely unhealthy-looking, ear-splitting maniac who thinks he’s fronting a college garage band circa 1995.
From Salon
Violinist Philip Setzer offers the origin story, circa 1976: Going to return some library books before heading home from Juilliard for the summer, he ran into fellow violin student Eugene Drucker, who asked him if he’d like to be in a quartet.
I’m old enough to remember when the King was on tour—my older brother and my father attended one of his shows, circa 1975, at the Springfield Civic Center in Massachusetts.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
