Word: 20th
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...Italy's most famous antiquities is surely its telephone system. But now AT&T aims to help bring it into the 20th century. Last week Italtel, an Italian telecommunications equipment maker, said it has chosen AT&T as its partner in a five-year, $27 billion government-subsidized mega-project to rebuild the country's cranky telephone system virtually from scratch. As one of the main contractors on the project, Italtel will supply most of the basic equipment, while AT&T will provide the know-how, software and supercomputers that will make Italian phone lines hum efficiently...
...little-noticed 1986 speech to the Chicago Economic Club, Baker began articulating a new view, an offering that recognized the primacy of economic policy in the late 20th century. "Our leadership has taken a form different from that of recent historical experience," he said. "The recent model has been one of national dominance in an international economic system -- as represented by the United States in the aftermath of World War II or by Britain in the latter half of the 19th century. Our new leadership is more in the manner of an architect and builder, patiently and tenaciously pursuing...
...culture and to infuse the best young art of our time. Yes, if you think that Warhol had about five remarkable years (1962-67) followed by a long downhill slide into money-raking banality, with his social portraits and his silk-screen editions of dogs, famous Jews of the 20th century and Mercedes; or that his actual influence on younger artists varied from liberating to moderately disastrous. The show fills in details in one's knowledge of Warhol's work -- for instance, how his fascination with the repeated image was there from his earliest days as an illustrator -- but does...
...always been scrupulous about releasing wide-screen films in "letter-box" format (masking the top and bottom of the screen to duplicate the breadth of the theatrical image), and this idea too is catching on. MGM is marketing lavish wide-screen editions of Doctor Zhivago and Ben- Hur, and 20th Century Fox will put out the Star Wars trilogy, as well as the recent smash Die Hard, in the full-frame format. Even E.T. was letter- boxed on disc, and Spielberg's earlier 1941, when it arrives on disc this summer, will be in wide screen and contain some...
With some artists, death is only a ratification of decay: it releases them from the humiliations of their late careers. So it was with Salvador Dali, who when he died last week at 84 was perhaps the archetype of that 20th century phenomenon, the Embarrassing Genius. He was the first modern artist to exploit fully the mechanism of publicity. He appropriated the idea of the artist as demonic obsessive. He dealt with the question Why should your fantasies matter? by insisting that he was such an extraterrestrial creature, so tuned to the zeitgeist through the trembling antennas of his waxed...