In Volunteer Slavery, her memoir of working at the Washington Post in the same era, Jill Nelson describes joining the paper's prestigious new Sunday magazine after a successful freelance career, only to find its culture dominated by white editors with no interest in people of colour.
"Hugo," by contrast, was directed by a consummate Hollywood insider, Martin Scorsese, who looks lovingly at French film culture in nearly the same era.
Lot prices ranged from $100 for an undistinguished turn-of-the-century French photogravure to one of Edward Curtis' famous Native American portraits, from the same era, offered at $5,000- $6,000.
In the same era, Marina Abramović put herself at the centre of a burning star until she nearly died.
It always surprises me that this movie came out as recently as 1992 because this film has the definite feel of the late 80s to me, something from the same era as, say, Weekend at Bernie's and other such classics (as regular readers will know by now, there are no higher compliments from me).
From around the same era, The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester is still at least partially fascinating.
It was out when I was a teenager, in the same era as "Stromboli" and "Bitter Rice," that wave at the time.
The same era saw the arrival of Copley Plaza, a co-op at 41 Eastern Parkway.
"And they're from the same era!
("Aerodynamic" lines in cars come from the same era).
