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lustrum [ˈlʌstrəm], lustre n pl -trums, -tra [-trə] (Mathematics & Measurements / Units) a period of five years [from Latin: ceremony of purification, from lustrāre to brighten, purify] lustrum, luster, lustre a period of five years. See also: Calendar
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Rand knows this demand of fiction and she draws her villains in broad strokes; she does this to prepare us, her readers, to participate vicariously in something like--yet also unalike--Odysseus's killing of the freebooters who have, during a lustrum of his absence, pilfered his larder and threatened his wife and son. Crashing at Gibson's loft on one of his New York visits, Clark was introduced to Robert Frank, who liked his photos enough to encourage a rich young friend--photographer and sometime junkie Danny Seymour--to put up the money for a book on Gibson's Lustrum Press imprint. hostage plays and movies that have appeared on Broadway or in movie art houses at least once every lustrum in the last half-century. |
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