Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NOVA (PBS, Sept. 6, 8 p.m. on most stations). TV's longest-running science series launches its 16th season with a four-part look at the development of modern surgery...
...knows better: she needs a man. Forced to choose between man the European snake and man the American sofa, Isabelle chooses domestic comfort. Crossing Delancey takes Sam's cozy tone too, when it should be screaming its way into black satire. If that's all there is for a modern woman -- or for an actress of Irving's sorceress smarts -- then she might as well curl up in bed with Henry James or Henry Miller and turn out the lights on life...
...every profane mention of the stuff. Keep a grip on the club, get a grip on yourself. The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers goes back to 1744 and leather golf balls filled with boiled feathers. But the club still hasn't got around to building a pro shop. Modern ammunition can be purchased at the tobacco counter in the dining room, the nerve center of the operation.The custom is to play 18 holes, dress up for lunch, then play 18 more...
...precautions might have been advised, given the lengthy and sordid history of chemical warfare. Use of deadly fumes dates back to the Peloponnesian War, when tar pitch and sulfur were mixed to produce a suffocating gas. Twenty-three centuries later, chemical weaponry emerged as the ugly stepchild of the modern chemical industry. The great nations of Europe decided that such weapons were barbaric and outlawed them in the Hague Convention...
...withdrawing in disarray from Afghanistan or a leader in the Kremlin who wants, in Reaganite fashion, to get the commissars off the backs of productive enterprise, the world appears to be fulfilling the President's boldest dreams. At home, most Americans have enjoyed the longest peacetime economic expansion in modern history. The "misery index" -- that combination of inflation and unemployment rates that the Democrats invoked to bedevil Gerald Ford in 1976 -- now stands at less than 10, roughly half what it was when Jimmy Carter left office. Reagan has also fulfilled his antigovernment pledge to drastically slash income-tax rates...