Word: modeli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Published last April, the Suicide Mode D'Emploi ('Suicide Operating Instructions') has already sold 50,000 copies. Publisher Alain Moreau predicts it will bring in $210,000 this year. Attempts in France to ban the book--which contains a chapter of 50 easy, painless and lethal "recipes"--have ranged from the Roman Catholic Church and the Ministry of Health to the parents of one of the 10 people thought to have succeeded in killing themselves by following the book's advice...
...this empurpled mode, relentlessly maintained throughout the novel (her 14th), that Oates has undertaken to recount the saga of the five nubile Zinn sisters of Bloodsmoor Valley, Pa., circa 1880. For these young ladies, the trajectory of love follows the customarily lunatic lines of an Oates romance. The youngest Zinn, Deirdre, is snatched away by a stranger in "an outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive...
...learn on the subject of ethics and respect for human life, which is demonstrably not true, and 2) it is certainly not for the rest of the world, meaning, implicitly, the historical tormentors of Jews, to presume to give moral instruction to the Jewish people. Begin in his combative mode strikes ugly notes. Last week his government even used the dark phrase "blood libel" to dismiss condemnations of the Israeli army's behavior at the camps. The phrase invidiously linked the critics to the medieval anti-Semites who accused Jews of crucifying Christian children and drinking their blood...
...City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, hits us, therefore, like a massive surprise attack. Some 330 masterworks of furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork and textiles show that Scandinavian design is not so much a style as a visual morality, a powerful force for beauty and meaning. Nor is the modern mode of Scandinavian design frozen into an abstract machine aesthetic. It is a creative way of meeting changing practical and emotional needs. Seen in this context, Danish modern is fresh, exciting and timeless. Like Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto's bentwood armchair (circa 1929) or Norwegian Eystein Sandnes' 1959 porcelain...
...that may seem a large order for what is, after all, a small picture, but, as everyone remembers, the old Star Trek television series was adept at wrapping up even bigger issues in an hour. This film represents a reversion to that agreeably middlebrow mode rather than a continuation of the first Star Trek movie's overweening manner. This time no one is out to zap the teen market with an imitation Star Wars. The special effects, for example, are modest and traditional, mostly models bopping around star fields. There is an easy sureness about Nicholas Meyer...