Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, is the obvious inspiration for Joe Pesci's Bernzy in THE PUBLIC EYE. Weegee was the ultimate New York City night person of the 1940s. Armed with a Speed Graphic, his car radio permanently tuned to the police band, he roamed the streets photographing urban life and death as he found it. Eventually his pictures made their way from tabloids to museums. A movie based on him might have been a marvel of period realism or a sharp study of the primitive as aspiring artist. Instead Howard Franklin's film involves...
...designers for their daydreams of a half-century hence. Christian Lacroix and visionary film director Tim Burton favor technology to overcome environment. Donna Karan merges clothing with communications gear. Geoffrey Beene believes that men will dump the suit -- as he already has. Giorgio Armani, noting that the basic 1940s outline is still chic, plumps for his easy elegant styles, be they last year's or next millennium...
RUTH HIBBARD ROMER, a founder of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) who helped reform the city's government in the 1940s, died...
RUTH HIBBARD ROMER, a founder of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) who helped reform the city's government in the 1940s, died...
...advent of penicillin drugs in the early 1940s ushered in a triumphant era of medicine. With stunning speed, pharmaceutical chemists armed doctors with one antibiotic after another, giving them an arsenal of magic bullets to knock out the germs that cause everything from pneumonia to gonorrhea. It was only a matter of time, it seemed, before all infectious diseases would be conquered...