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Word: moderned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know what. Momma, who is 30, has pretty good gams herself. In her latest movie, Something Short of Paradise, Sarandon plays a feminist writer who wants love and security but not necessarily the marriage commitment that her partner, David Steinberg, insists on. Says Sarandon: "It's a pretty modern love story, which means everyone is fairly confused." In any case, the best shots of her are thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Oral literature throve in Ancient Greece and, less celbratedly among the ancient Celts and Mesopotamians, and even among some modern-day Yugoslavs. Harvard's lecture halls, with their crowds of literate students, would not seem fertile territory for this genre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You can choose courses blind, or you can read the Confi Guide. | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...thousands of square miles, there is nothing but the endless green of the Amazon rain forest, forbidding, primeval, untamed. Then, on a remote bend of the Jari River, a fast-flowing tributary, the vista changes dramatically. There, as tall as a 16-story building, stands a monument to modern engineering: a brand-new, spanking-white pulp plant, which reaches out with ducts, cables and conveyor belts to a wood-chipping mill, a chemical factory and a power generating facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billionaire Ludwig's Brazilian Gamble | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...lack of satisfactory living conditions in the rough territory has contributed to a debilitating rate of turnover, more than 50% a year. This adds enormously to the cost of training programs that Ludwig's managers must conduct in order to acquaint the largely backwoods work force with modern machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billionaire Ludwig's Brazilian Gamble | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...Richards, University Professor Emeritus and one of the founders of modern literary theory, died Friday in England. He was 86 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I. A. Richards, Literary Critic, Dies at 86 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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