Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is perhaps the most deceptive song on the album, "Don't Worry About The Government," Byrne sings about how wonderful modern life is; "My building has every convenience/It's going to make life easy...
TIME'S glance at the Sex Pistols [Jan. 16] only serves to illustrate the growing feeling among those who enjoy good rock that modern music is taking a fast dive into the garbage can. Not only is Beethoven rolling over; he may walk out of his grave and give Johnny Rotten and his compatriots a deserved punch in the nose...
...tubs actually exist and are widely used in such areas as Santa Barbara, California. The tub itself is basically a California wine vat adapted for bathing purposes by the addition of pump, filter, heater, water-jets, and lots of water. While some claim that the modern hot tub originated in the '50s among rural dropouts in the Santa Barbara Hills, tubs did not attract much notice in California until four or five years...
While Lasch's analysis of the effects of the rise of modern social science may be largely accurate, his capitalist conspiracy theory seems too simple to explain the development of applied social science. Lasch himself seems to recognize this: he alludes to the agents of socialization only indirectly...
...seems that the modern sports fan has to be equally proficient at reading the fine print of legal contracts and boxscores. Everyone is aware that those records contained in the dog-eared pages of newspaper boxscores are made to be broken. Events of the last week, however, have proven that, as far as sports go, the letter of the law is not made to be broken--only evaded...