Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cassen Mayers' red ABC (Abrams; $9.95) uses objects in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: D is for a Renoir dancer; N is for an Audubon nest; V is for a Degas violinist. Mayers also offers a matching blue volume (Abrams; $9.95), with works from the Museum of Modern Art in New York: F is for a Jasper Johns flag; N is for a starry night by Van Gogh; G is for an appropriate goat by Pablo Picasso. After all, he was the artist who said it took him a lifetime to paint like a child...
...capital. The Communist Party's Secretariat underwent a total overhaul, and Anatoli Dobrynin, the longtime Soviet Ambassador to Washington, - was brought home to become Gorbachev's principal adviser on foreign policy. Finally, the Soviet leader gave the propaganda apparatus a new look. The message from Moscow now had a modern, Western style, even though the substance was usually as hard-line as ever...
Winning twelve of 16 games this season, the most in the modern history of the franchise, Cleveland has the brightest record in the American Football % Conference and the biggest head of steam. However far the Browns go in the play-offs, they will not have to leave town. "The main thing with our team," Kosar says, "is that we are a team...
They need not have worried. Despite its more modern styling, the new cab, which was introduced last month and is known as the Metrocab, is at least equal in comfort to the older models. It has a sleeker hood but is still clearly a taxi. Its color, of course, is black. MCW plans to produce 1,000 Metrocabs in 1987, or about half the number of traditional cabs that London Taxis International sells each year...
...fashioned philosophical questions of how to live. Universities that only 15 years ago were promoting a do-it-yourself education for undergraduates are lunging back to the basic, orderly curriculums of the past. In art and architecture too, one begins to feel a resistance to the antihuman cant of modernism. It is not quite so chic to be modern anymore, not a necessary declaration of one's moral and aesthetic worth. We ride on a supersonic vehicle from our century into yours, yet a great many seats are facing backward...