Word: contem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supersalaried (reportedly $7,000 to $10,000 for a standard photo session) fashion supermodel. It seems like a retake of some 35 years ago, when her mother, Grace Kelly, was a model before becoming a movie star. She projected a serene, society-page sexiness. Stephanie has a contem- porary appeal: athletic, funky, challenging. She has been a mannequin only a few months, but she is on the cusp of signing a hefty contract with the Italian designer Enrico Coveri (exact figures to be publicized only when the ink is dry). She was due to appear in New York to pose...
Manheim is critical of much contem porary translation. Because he regards Goethe's Faust as untranslatable, he thinks English versions are "a waste of time," though he acknowledges that they "may be of help to students incapable of learning German or unwilling to take the time to do it." He agrees completely with Edmund Wilson's celebrated verdict that Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin is unreadable. Lately, Manheim has been outraged by the praise lavished on the new English version of Remembrance of Things Past. Manheim, who has translated Proust's letters...
Oppens has performed extensively with all of the major symphony orchestras. She is known as a champion of contem- Porary composers. But she said that she also likes to mix old and new music on the same program. "We're in an era where audiences are willing to listen to contemporary works and composers are willing to write for them," she said...
...there is also a distinctly contem porary aspect to back trouble. As people grow more and more sedentary in an increasingly automated world - doing most work sitting down, adding extra pounds of girth - their backs become ever more vulnerable to injury. Ex plains Dr. Kenneth Casey, a pain specialist at the University of Michigan: "Low-back pain is largely a social problem. It's as much due to the way we live as anything else...