Word: 20th
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...feel to work on a play which ponders what will happen in the 20th century, when we are now in 1998, looking towards the 21st century and what it holds it store...
Harvard Square's purse-snatchers apparentlyskipped their holiday break, according to the log.A purse was reported stolen from Au Bon Pain at2:30 p.m. on the 20th...
...vast majority of his compatriots continue to revile him for causing their present woes--with the latest volume in his post-Politburo oeuvre. Titled "Thoughts on the Past and the Future," the 300-page "textbook" consists of the former General Secretary's deep thoughts on his country and the 20th century as the millennium approaches. Although Columbia University Press is to publish an English-language edition in 1999, Gorby has little hope for redemption at home. The Russian-language run of "Thoughts" is embarrassingly small: just 10,000 copies have been printed. And although the book costs only about...
...years of fashion history, the book goes beyond what might be expected of such a compilation, offering up entries not only on celebrated designers from Paul Poiret to Helmut Lang but also on tastemakers generally less well known--for example, textile creator Zika Ascher, cobbler Pietro Yantorny and early 20th century cosmetics manufacturer Alexandre Napoleon Bourjoi. Another plus: at $39.95, The Fashion Book is about one-sixth the price of a Hermes scarf...
...your report on the economic movers and shakers of the 20th century, one motif kept reappearing. Despite all of America's racism, violence, poverty, religious intolerance and ruthless capitalism, the U.S. was and is the only place where a poor immigrant armed with nothing more than vision and unrelenting drive can become a millionaire in a short period of time. YUVAL COHEN Paris