Built around A.D. 80, a grand oval arena for gladiatorial contests and feeding Christians to lions, the Colosseum had survived time and Visigoths but succumbed to slow attrition during the later Christian Era, when various popes leased it as a stone quarry for their construction projects.
I'm not sure what's meant by "edgy"..But I have no nostalgia for the time of the junkies, after heroin arrived, or the crack era, when various knuckleheads were killing each other over control of street corners.
It's also a luminous portrait of an era when holidaymaking was more chaotic and less commodified than it is now: Colette, when packing, simply puts various household objects into hampers and valises (and spends the holiday, whether by beach or up mountain, in smart frocks and stilettoes).
My parents lived in an era when norms mattered more.
Various experts have championed modular reactors as a way for utilities in the United States and other countries to harness nuclear power in an era when the cost of a conventional project has become dauntingly large.
In an era when the most arcane fact can be fished from the air via wireless, some librarians have headed into virtual worlds like Second Life, where "extreme virtual librarians" help patron-avatars answer various questions.
In an era when all but a few defensive players were anonymous, Davidson was a star.
I GREW up in an era when nobody went anywhere.
They were of an era when family still prevailed".
It was an era when babies were born at home.
We are, after all, living in an era when science plays a crucial economic role.
