Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much for the critics who say Carlin's comedy is kid stuff. Despite living in the luminous shadow of Lenny Bruce, pioneer of modern irony and consciousness, Carlin has steadily dug out his niche as a performing artist...
...disgusting images into our faces in a manner reminiscent of Linda Blair shoving a crucifix into her crotch. Crunch, crunch. Blatty's novel needed: a) someone less pretentious than Blatty to write the screenplay, and b) a director with more of a sense of lyricism and wit, a modern James Whale, or a Hitchcock, or even a DePalma. Friedkin and Blatty successfully induce nausea, not terror--unless you're one of the impressionable innocents who gave this film its reputation, in which case, frankly, you have no taste. An excellent performance by Max Von Sydow, a pretty good...
...Britain, martial law was abolished in 1628, though in modern times the government has occasionally invoked emergency regulations, particularly in the colonies-"in accordance," as one British legal expert put it, "with the standard of civilization of the states involved." Thus district commissioners sometimes had the power to administer justice, and preventive detention laws became part of the heritage of colonialism. Emergency powers, first enacted in 1920, were given the army in Northern Ireland in 1973. But at home the British did not use martial law even during the worst days of the World Wars. Their view, at least since...
Whether that conference will ever take place was still the central question last week as white Rhodesians paused to celebrate the 88th anniversary of the founding of Fort Salisbury on the site of the modern capital. When Ian Smith arrived for the celebration at Cecil Square, one man shouted "Good old Smithy! Some of us are still behind you!" No doubt that was true, though it was hard to tell from the tepid applause...
Grayson has been startled at how little companies have done to measure their own productivity, let alone improve it. "They have paid much more attention to finance, marketing, mergers and tax manipulation," says he. Few production men have risen to the top in modern business; the accountants reign in the executive aeries. The business schools and their brightly minted M.B.A.s sense the trend and pay scant attention to productivity, Grayson observes. "Hardly any courses are given in production and efficiency...