Word: modern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defeat in 1996, the Speaker tried to inspire the troops with a "movement planning proposal," in which the definer defined his mission (take a deep breath) like so: "We are the positive, values-oriented, problem-solving movement committed to a stronger better America with a better government that uses modern management, relies on faith-based and other charities, pursues modern science and technology, encourages wealth creation through the private sector, and helps people move from poverty to prosperity so we can have better services through a smaller..." and so on, for another 30 words, before the sentence came...
...recently devoted a gallery to the little known art of French printmaking in the 16th and 17th centuries. The prints displayed served a purpose, that purpose, when translated into modern standards, ranges from billboard images to the poor man's substitute painting. The prints were either displayed in local taverns, public notice-hanging walls or kept in a private collection. Among the assembled prints at the MFA, are both the first "pin-up girl" (a partially nude woman, her left breast exposed) and the first comic strip. Peddlers wandered, carrying mass copies of these various prints on their backs, selling...
...Modern feminism--the academic and radical feminism--has identified society as patriarchal, phallocentric...all society is a male construction to keep women down," Liebert said...
...Some people think [the Core] should be [easier], but I don't know that that is a goal of the Core necessarily," said Jane K. Cramer, a teaching assistant for Historical Studies A-51: "Modern World Economy...
Museums, it has been said, are the modern cathedrals. Richard Meier's Los Angeles Getty Musuem, Frank Gehry's Bilboa Guggenheim--these are the seats of present-day architectural spectacle and wonder. This year's winner of the Pritzker Prize (architecture's highest award) demonstrated his own ability to generate that sense of wonder. It was, indeed, a grand Piano performance...