Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With her first hubby. she tells us, it was a case of true love but then he was run over by a bus. The happy marriage having ended seven years earlier, Cher's character, Loretta, decides she needs the security of a new marriage. This, apparently, is how the modern woman acts...
...Harvard hockey team, what the eight ft. by eight ft. cupboard on the ice's edge--sometimes devilishly referred to as the "sin bin"--lacks in modern comforts, it makes up for in familiarity...
Then Hawking's luck turned. The progress of the disease slowed, and Einsteinian space-time suddenly seemed less formidable. But what really made the difference, he says, "was that I got engaged to Jane," who was studying modern languages at Cambridge. "This gave me something to live for." As he explains, "If we were to get married, I had to get a job. And to get a job, I had to finish my Ph.D. I started working hard for the first time in my life. To my surprise, I found I liked...
...Loooove Modern Technology...
...Japan, the scene was gone. "A big misunderstanding," said a spokesman for the Shochiku-Fuji distribution company, which apparently snipped the 40-second sequence from its prints because it feared a backlash from right-wing Japanese. Bertolucci accused Shochiku-Fuji of mutilating his masterpiece, an epic tale of modern China. Company Executive Shinji Serada phoned the Italian director to apologize, and promised to restore the missing clip. But the flap was certain to dismay the Chinese, who have often accused Japan of trying to avoid the blame for its militaristic past...