Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhibition has ever made a stronger case for the quality of futurist art or gone into more detail about its roots. Futurism was the most influential art movement Italy produced in the early 20th century. Indeed, the word futurist became synonymous with modernity itself to people in America, England and Russia until around 1925. The movement took an aggressively internationalist stance, looking to a future world unified by technology. Yet its rhetoric was bedded deep in Italian life. The core of the futurist group, which coalesced in the early 1900s, was made up of the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra...
...hidden in the clouds and whose lowest steps are lost in a dark abyss. We could have ascended this staircase; instead we chose to descend it. Spiritual decay is terrible." The man who hurtled through the sky with the help of technology felt out of place in the 20th century ("I cannot stand this age"). He argued frequently that modern life had provided people with material comforts but no clear reason for continuing to live: "We can no longer survive on refrigerators, politics, card games, and crossword puzzles. We can no longer live without poetry, color, love...
...major in the U.S. Air Force. But Joe is not quite the contemporary he seems. Sioux and Cheyenne blood flows in his arteries ("My people were warriors once"), and when his experimental aircraft is forced down over the Bering Sea, he becomes a Native American fugitive in a 20th century world, retracing the path his ancestors took across the strait to fresh hunting grounds. In pursuit are the current equivalent of bounty hunters: Soviet agents under the baton of the crafty Colonel Zamatev. The influence of Film Director John Ford soon seems to overshadow the action: "(Joe's) hair...
...pressure to perform is fierce: 20 players compete for every place on one of the national teams. Says Jakub Zvara, 15, a member of the Prague center, presently ranked 20th in Czechoslovakia in his age group: "I am sacrificing everything, including training and education for a normal job, for tennis. If I am not a good player, then I am nothing." The payoff: a chance to travel freely in the West, rake in hard-currency winnings, and live better than Central Committee members. Any player 18 or over with 120 points on the international tennis rating scale in singles...
...first tactic, of course, was to open up the new film and populate it. Aside from the fact that combat-trained women are fully integrated into the group, the crew members are 20th century grunts unregenerately projected into the far future. Led by the usual by-the-books lieutenant who is incompetent and by the usual kick-ass sergeant who is supercompetent, their numbers naturally include Hudson (Bill Paxton), a coward, and Hicks (Michael Biehn), a quiet, steadfast type, who turns out to be the bravest...