Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should we be censured? Because someonehappened to say that the '50s were carefree?" saidWeissbecker. "You could easily pick any period inhistory and distort it in this day and age...
Despite potential pitfalls, experts say, more peace pacts could continue to defuse tensions between the two superpowers, setting the stage for a new age of cooperation...
...Arts B-35. "The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture and Ceromonial at the Ottoman Court." Guiru Necipoglu...
Both works live up to their Tolstoyan title. Under executive producer Zvi Dor-Ner, the series freshens the emblematic images of the nuclear age with rare footage and ironic juxtapositions, so that the viewer is more likely to look, and think, twice. Yet another mushroom cloud, at first almost a cliche, becomes surreal as Communist Chinese cavalrymen are shown charging toward ground zero as part of a training exercise, riders and horses wearing special masks to protect them against the blast...
...spokesman for the overarching theme of both the TV series and the book. That theme is that nuclear weapons are not really weapons at all; they are political instruments whose very existence deters their own use. Author Newhouse calls the quest for strategic advantage "the chimera of the nuclear age...