Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, Time After Time milks to the utmost Wells' reaction to the marvels of modern technology--planes, cars, and see-through jeans. But the well-constructed script doesn't overdo his future shock: after several funny incidents, Meyer shifts into the love story. From there, tension builds up again, as the Ripper resumes his old slice-and-dice tricks, but the laughs periodically resurface as Wells does battle with telephones and electric toothbrushes...
ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 13--It was like a throwback to the early days of football as Harvard worked a single-wing shotgun offense that befuddled the modern-day Cornell defenders and sparked the Crimson to a 23-20 win here at Schoellkopf Field...
They were coming to see not just the head of the world's 710 million Roman Catholics but a man who during his first year as Pontiff has demonstrated that he is unlike any of his modern predecessors. Already this year John Paul has toured Mexico and his native Poland, hugging and blessing peasants, kissing babies and stirring vast outpourings of human emotion with folksy homilies. In his unique fashion, he is rapidly becoming parish priest to the world, and this mission could only be furthered by his U.S. visit. Said the Rev. James Finlay, president of Fordham University...
...fighters from the Irish air corps. Later, five air corps jets saluted the Pope by flying over Dublin's airport in a cross-shaped formation. President Patrick Hillery, Prime Minister Jack Lynch and senior Cabinet ministers were on hand to greet John Paul. In keeping with modern papal protocol, Prime Minister Lynch and his Catholic colleagues did not kiss the Pope's ring, but merely shook his hand and bowed...
...pharmacist. But reader's of "Irrevy:" An Irreverent, Illustrated View of Nuclear Power may conclude that the nuclear industry is killing people on a scale the Son of Sam could only dream of. Author John W. Gofman asserts that everyone in the industry shares responsibility for the peculiar modern crime of "premeditated random murder." Gofman chairs the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, which has published his collection of talk given at anti-nuclear rallies and in a debate with Edward Teller, famous for his H-bomb paternity...