Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrow-gauge contest between two disciplined teams of political professionals. The problem is not the caliber of the candidates, since both Bush and Dukakis have stronger claims to competence than many who have sought the office. Rather it is their passive and uncritical acceptance of the premises of modern political manipulation. Bush flogs patriotism at a flag factory, the far more restrained Dukakis joyrides in a tank, and neither seems embarrassed by the prearranged artifice. There is a cynical edge to it all, as the backstage puppeteers pull the strings, and Bush and Dukakis dangle before the TV cameras obediently...
...Tyler as a "domestic" novelist. Her novels generally deal with families, with relationships and with the middle class. But to call Tyler "domestic" is to make her work seem somehow less substantial, less complete. When John Updike writes about what suburban families say to each other, how modern men and women deal with everything from raising children to buying living room furniture, from adultery to taking out the garbage, we do not think that he is merely concerned with chronicling domestic life...
...festival, "Images in the Shadows: A History of Spanish Cinema," documents the progression of Spanish film from the late 1920's through the years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship up to the modern...
...Divinity School, created in 1816, opened to provide graduate divinity students a program independent from the College, which until then ran all ministerial courses. The school integrates Harvard's original mission of educating ministers with modern demands to combine theological concerns with those of medicine, law and business...
...Moving Image, on which Prince Charles raised the curtain last week, are as informal and user friendly as their acronymic nicknames, AMMI and MOMI. Splendidly begauded in perky colors, stocked with playful film fetishes and interactive exhibits that look like video games, the new museums are not mausoleums of modern art. They are more like theme parks, urban Disney Worlds...