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Though Heston said he recognized his opinions are not always popular, he told the audience--primarily composed of undergraduates and law students--that one must be prepared to "be humiliated and to endure the modern-day equivalent of the police dogs at Montgomery and the water cannons at Selma...
...featuring of these particular historical figures as stars in a musical may strike some audience members as odd-- and it would odd in a modern-day setting, withour instant-information pop-culture world whereHollywood stars are more adored than any pettyhuman interest hero. But at the turn of the lastcentury, people became celebrities for a varietyof reasons, not just because they starred inmulti-million dollar movies--the breadth and, yes,oddness of their respective accomplishments madethem famous and adored by (or at least mildlyinteresting to) the masses. Ragtime may bebased on E.L. Doctorow's 1975 work of fiction, butthe real...
...years since the store opened, rent control has been abolished in Cambridge and an affluent new class of professionals has begun to move into the city. Bryant says that modern-day Cantabrigians live with little connection to politics...
...that character?" The Fonz? Vinnie Barbarino? Nope. The slickster was J.R. Ewing of Dallas, as depicted in a 1980 cover story. Another recalled a photograph in TIME of two Peruvian surgeons, Drs. Francisco Grana Reyes and Esteban Rocca. "The content of the story," said the reader, "was about a modern-day brain operation using ancient tools from the Mayans." Did we run that? Yes, indeed...
This may be a drastic view of the future--after all, we still have a United States government. Still, Soros and philanthropists like him are not just modern-day Good Samaritans, they are symbols of how out-of-control the global economy has become...