Word: 20th
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...North America, labeled VINLANDA INSULA. It seemed to be the first cartographic evidence that Europeans had visited the continent before the time of Columbus. In 1974, however, some particles of ink from the map were found to be titanium-based. This meant, experts said, that the ink was of 20th century vintage and the map a fraud. But the Davis team, using their cyclotron technique, proved the ink was carbon based, with titanium present only in trace amounts. Says Cahill: "We feel that the question of the map's authenticity is once again open...
...prospect of increased profits from his London papers comes at a critical time for Murdoch. Last year he doubled the size of his empire by buying seven Metromedia television stations ($2 billion), 20th Century-Fox ($575 million) and a stable of business magazines from Ziff-Davis ($350 million). To finance his purchases, Murdoch has borrowed about $480 million from banks and issued shares in Fox Television Stations, the first time stock in a Murdoch-controlled enterprise has been offered to the U.S. public. Despite Murdoch's heavy financial obligations, analysts who have followed his fortunes over the years trust...
...Gorbachev is likely to blame the Brezhnev regime for much of the corruption and inefficiency that has seeped into Soviet life. Public resentment has been building over the cronyism that Brezhnev fostered. Gorbachev's attacks on the mistakes of a past Soviet leader will bring back memories of the 20th party congress on Feb. 25, 1956, when Khrushchev presented a four-hour report that cataloged Joseph Stalin's use of mass deportation, imprisonment, torture and execution to eliminate real and suspected opponents...
Winters, of course, is by no means the first 20th century artist to get interested in minor life-forms that need a microscope, or at least a magnifying glass, to reveal themselves. One thinks of the buds and pods that crop up in Paul Klee's watercolors, some of which are fanciful illuminations of Goethe's ideas about the Urpflanze, or "primal plant"; or of the extraordinary images of tiny natural structures taken in the 1920s by photographers like Karl Blossfeldt, in which a seedcase can rear up like a Gothic tower, suggesting all manner of analogies to architecture...
...over and around the audience. The drama lies in the confrontation between the acoustic and the amplified instruments. Ghostly trills float above rumbling repeated figures, brasses punch out long discordant lines, and the shimmering whoosh of woodwinds fills the air. Repons is a journey into the soul of the 20th century, a harsh but exhilarating blend of music and machine. Its only flaw is that it does not go far enough. In 1981, when Boulez premiered the first 18 minutes of the work, the technology was still largely untried. What Repons needs now is to live up even better...