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Word: 20th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coke is now inextricably woven into the very fabric of 20th century American history. All of our fathers started taking all our mothers out "for a Coke" at the corner soda counter. GIs thoughout our history have punctuated their between battle rest with an ice-cold bottle of Coca-Coda...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: The Death of Coke | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...paper with lyric, impalpable precision in three schematic chalks (white, black and sanguine), conveying the fullest sense of Rubens' appetite for character studies delicately balanced between intimacy and formality. Viewing such work, one realizes that there is no Rubens (or Durer, or Mantegna, or Watteau) of / the late 20th century; what we see here are emblems of a tradition that ended, except for footnotes, with Picasso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Emblems of a Lost Tradition | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...really happy. I'm really pleased," said Lee, who currently teaches History 1711. "The United States and East Asia" and History 1619. "American Public Policy in the 20th Century." In the fall he taught History 1962. "International Relations since...

Author: By Michael Isenman, | Title: Undergrads Pick Favorite Teachers | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...where an inlaid l8th century commode starts at $10,000, tourists are bidding on practically everything. "The Americans are in the process of buying out the entire French patrimony," complains a haughty young dealer who is doing his best to help them. "Everything, from the 12th century to the 20th, absolutely everything. And prices? There is no limit." France has a wide variety of luxuries, and despite the new exchange rates, Parisian prices too remain pretty luxurious. As one survivor puts it, "Paris has gone from the ridiculous to the merely exorbitant." For oenophiles who have graduated from Mouton Cadet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Traveling Dollar | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Cucchi made end-of-history folk art, full of skulls and torrents of lava, cemeteries and crowing cocks. Chia, in a melange of 20th century styles ranging from early Mussolini to late Chagall, did ladylike coal heavers expelling wind while floating in postures vaguely derived from classical statuary. And Clemente? Somewhat more elusive, various and parody resistant: a survivor. The three Cs are now reduced to two, if one can judge from the abysmal quality of Chia's New York show last winter--whimsies impacted into cliche by the stress of overproduction. This month Clemente is on stage, blanketing Soho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Symbolist with Roller Skates | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

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