Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This legacy of superior achievement at Harvard Law by Afro-Americans since the early 20th century deserves something better than the banal ethnocentrism rampant among members of the Harvard Black Law Students Association." --Martin Kilson The Washington Post, August...
...movies were born, requiring motion, the images were available for all to see: the energy of the human figure, the equality of male and female movie stars, the athletic heroism of actresses like Pearl White and Annette Kellermann. From the new ideal of bodies in motion came an original 20th century figure: the energized woman, ready to express her potential in physical activity...
...series of compromises," but maintains that "the film redirects you. There is always a center." Says Tom McCarthy, senior vice president, post production, at Columbia Pictures: "Panning and scanning involves creative decisions." Unfortunately, those decisions are not made by the creators of the movie. Yet Richard Wolfe, 20th Century-Fox's vice president of engineering and video technology, insists, "My experience is that directors are not interested in the pan-and-scan transfer session...
...throwback to the elegance of the Russia whence he came, Erte has been for eight decades both a witness to and an influence on the style and tone of the 20th century. The designer for the Folies-Bergère, the Ziegfeld Follies, George White's Scandals and the illustrator of every Harper's Bazaar cover from 1915 to 1936, Erte continues today to work in his Paris home, creating his fine-lined, Beardsley-esque drawings; only last June, Der Rosenkavalier, featuring his sets and costumes, was performed at England's Glyndebourne Opera Festival...
Tousled-haired and grinning diffidently, Beaver is a 20th century Tom Sawyer. Able to resist anything but temptation, he is a dimpled noble savage who regards parents as gentle adversaries to be outwitted for their own good. He is a cultural icon for the baby-boom generation, the symbol of the apple-pie joys and melted ice-cream sorrows of an idyllic suburban childhood that never really was. After a successful six-year run, Beaver went off network television in 1963, but it continued to flicker on the mental screens of a generation...