Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clockwork Orange. Stanley Kubrick elevates this Anthony Burgess nightmare into a film of frightening precision, thought-provoking and pointed in its satire of "enlightened" modern ideas of criminal reform. Some find the violence sensationalized, but Kubrick gives it all purpose. The perfectly realized vision of London as the decadent plaything of roving gangs turns macabre as Kubrick overlays Rossini, Beethoven, and Purcell music. Don't expect to leave feeling reassured or satisfied; Kubrick doesn't answer the questions he raises about society's right to curb individual freedoms when the individuals smash, batter and rape. Malcolm MacDowells's sympathetic portrayal...
...production suffers from severe weaknesses. Director Greg Farrell seems to find no distinction between projection and bellowing. Thus the tone of the entire play is too loud, like a minuet turned to disco level. There is also a strange mish-mash of modern and antique costuming that, despite its cuteness, is distracting. And though designer Tamar Zimmerman constructed an adequately elegant sitting-room for the only set, her lighting often darkens half the stage, shadowing actors at key moments...
...novel that inspires book critics to nothing but rave reviews is a rare bird. Birdy has already been hailed as a modern classic. The Village Voice called Birdy, published in January, the novel of the year. The New York Times used adjectives like "enchanting" and "electrifying...
...LITTLE MAGAZINE IN AMERICA: A MODERN DOCUMENTARY HISTORY...
Amin lavished on his forces such perks as free whisky, tape recorders and, for top officers, Mercedes cars-as well as modern Soviet-made arms. For a while, Amin could easily pay the high cost of keeping his troops happy. During the surge in world coffee prices in the mid-1970s, Uganda's exports put as much as $150 million a year into Amin's treasury. But coffee prices have since plummeted from a high of $3.18 per pound to $1.28 as of last week. In addition, increasing amounts of coffee are simply being smuggled...