How could something that mattered so much be historically and literally inaccurate?
"There had been so much difficulty here historically, people felt the sense of opportunity had been wrung out of the company," said Mr. Ryder, who grew up poor in Dry Prong, La., and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Louisiana State University.
One guy told me it was because of their karma that the Germans and Russians have done so much bad shit historically that the younger generations are all out searching for god in India.
No show in American television history, it is safe to say, has ever put so much effort into maintaining historically appropriate ways of speaking — and no show has attracted so much scrutiny for its efforts.
The renegade mindset, historically so much a part of Lone Star culture, once led Texas artists to avoid the influence of New York and Los Angeles (while longing for the exposure) and draw largely on local tradition.
The director and choreographer Susan Stroman is interested in nostalgia, too, but her focus is not so much on getting things historically accurate as on imposing a certain, slightly rickety razzmatazz style on the show she's directing.
There is not one eye-catching shopping bag anywhere to be found in Jerusalem; for that, like so much else that is historically trivial but culturally telling, you have to go to Tel Aviv.
The pursuit of wealth ( The Ferengi), the goal of total supremacy ( The Borg) or the urge to become isolationists ( The Klingons) are so much more like us historically.
The Fed could stop worrying so much about inflation, which remains historically low, and look at how else it might encourage spending.
