Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ability to "shuttle" off this 20th century mortal coil and return, flawlessly, is a landmark achievement of the human race-a forerunner of man's travel to the stars. Initiative, expertise and creativity are alive and well in America...
...stultifying, repetitive, dreary, heartbreaking. In his 1972 book Working, Studs Terkel began: "This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence-to the spirit as well as to the body." The historical horrors of industrialization (child labor, Dickensian squalor, the dark satanic mills) translate into the 20th century's robotic busywork on the line, tightening the same damned screw on the Camaro's firewall assembly, going nuts to the banging, jangling Chaplinesque whirr of modern materialism in labor, bringing forth issue, disgorging itself upon the market...
...geodesic dome. Dymaxion map. Geoscope and other inventions have made Fuller known as one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th century. Despite initial failures, including being expelled twice and never graduating from Harvard, these early successes lend credibility to his ideas. The 85-year-old Fuller succeeds primarily be perceiving the world and mankind in large terms: he defines the universe as the "omni-interaccommodative, nonsimultaneous, and only partially overlapping, omni-intertransforming. self-regenerating scenario...
...Executive Steven Bach, who once called Cimino "the Michelangelo of film," now pointed out that his director had been "behind five days in shooting- in six days." Universal's Ned Tanen noted that The Deer Hunter, which his studio coproduced, had gone 50% over budget. Sherry Lansing of 20th Century-Fox assured the company's owner-to-be, Marvin Davis, that "there are no Heaven 's Gates here." When Producer Ray Stark was asked what he would do with a self-indulgent director like Cimino, he shot back: "Fire him! Meanwhile, Michelangelo labored to repaint his Sistine...
Rapid changes in American society during the 20th century have led to the current lack of direction in modern architecture. Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic for The New York Times, told a capacity audience of about 300 at Longfellow Hall yesterday...