Word: ago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...producers have the right idea in trying to modernize the atmosphere of the movies. Even classics like From Russia With Love seem a little dated these days. No one would expect the Bond of today to be a Xerox copy of the one from 20 years ago. Licence to Kill seems to be an effort to combine the staples of the old Bond--girls and gadgets--with a modern twist, a new type of hero and a new type of enemy...
...only things left for the superspy to tackle are society's unsolved problems. But then again, maybe the late '80s and the early '60s are more alike than we want to believe. The specter of nuclear annhiliation is just as real today as it was 25 years ago, if not more so. Maybe there's still room for a James Bond who grapples with the really big problems in the world...
Should both scholars join the Harvard faculty, "it will certainly add new blood," said Columbia University American historian Eric Foner, who two years ago turned down a Harvard tenure offer. "It will prove that the Harvard History Department is able to bring in good people in American history...
...employee, who requested anonymity,said, "It sounds like a great contract--we gotbenefits we've never had. I don't think anyone intheir right mind would vote against it. But what Iwant to know is, why didn't we negotiate thesebenefits a long time ago...
...with it all the time, anxious to get to the end," he says with a hint of dread. "When I'm finished, I do nothing. It takes a week before I even begin to feel tired." To keep in shape, he performs a daily exercise taught to him years ago by a family pundit in Trinidad. It is a difficult yoga bend that leaves the writer arched backward with his head on the floor...