Word: 1920s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potent interaction between the arts and technology. You have to go back to the invention of the printing press in the 1450s to find anything comparable. Now, seemingly overnight, machines and electronics were transforming virtually everything. Photography, an important 19th century invention, became almost a different medium in the 1920s and '30s with the combination of high-quality, handheld cameras, film on an advanceable roll, and the flashbulb. Photographers were free to roam the fields and streets. They could cover crimes and wars. Soft, pretty pictures gave way to a more spontaneous, realistic style...
...collage--the gluing of previously unrelated things and images on a flat surface--became a basic mode of modern art, that too was due to Picasso's Cubist collaboration with Braque. He was never a member of the Surrealist group, but in the 1920s and '30s he produced some of the scariest distortions of the human body and the most violently irrational, erotic images of Eros and Thanatos ever committed to canvas. He was not a realist painter/reporter, still less anyone's official muralist, and yet Guernica remains the most powerful political image in modern art, rivaled only by some...
...Outing Club is one of the Harvard's oldest organizations, dating back to the 1920s. In the club's early years, club members were primarily concerned with mapping unfamiliar territories, of which their were still many in the New England area. By the `70s and `80s, it was not unknown for club members to travel around the globe. In fact, a few even hiked up some of the world's tallest mountains, including Mount McKinley. Today, however, the club has toned down its transcontinental trekking...
Steam is an older method of heating that Harvard has used since the 1920s, but the College is by no means the only institution to maintain this seasoned process. According to Morris A. Pierce, district energy historian and energy manager for the University of Rochester, a recent census by the Department of Energy found more than 30,000 district heating systems in the United States and thousands more worldwide...
...tradition of director Richard Linklater's so-ridiculous-that-you-have-to-laugh movies (Dazed and Confused, SubUrbia), The Newton Boys robs money not just from banks, but from moviegoers. Set in the bootlegging world of the 1920s, the Newton Boys (Matthew McConaughey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ethan Hawke and Skeet Ulrich) are America's most successful bank robbers, and are portrayed as sweet, Southern-drawling teenage heartthrobs. Making a mockery out of the real event, this film persuades moviegoers to fall in love with all those chiseled faces and to forget the fact that their success was made in robbery...