Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times post-modern, at times vaudevillian and it is frequently uneven. A bonus in all of this is the truly great moments that come with creative tinkering. The opening is funny, ingenious and anachronistic; a prologue entreating the 20th century audience to be indulgent and, one would suppose, to engage in willing suspension of disbelief...
...American done to deserve this? After all, AMR is widely regarded as the best run of the big U.S. airline companies. Under the aggressive leadership of chairman Robert Crandall, corporate revenues have more than doubled in the past six years, to $8.8 billion. Most impressive, the airliner built its modern fleet of 683 aircraft with relatively little borrowing. Against $2.6 billion in assets at the end of last year, AMR held a modest $1.2 billion in long-term debt...
...typical boot camp is the Al Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth, Ga., where 150 inmates are housed in two-level, spartan, modern facilities. A scene one recent morning: correctional officer Eddie Cash greets burglar Robert Parker and three other new inmates with a stream of profane abuse...
...jazz baby or a Jezebel, in All About Eve and Now, Voyager, she created the movies' first and finest thoroughly modern woman: smart, independent, combative, ever alluring...
...completion of my Spanakopita, I arose from my chair and went to make myself a hot fudge sundae. I returned to the table holding a dish heaped with two large scoops of vanilla ice cream and literally dripping with hot fudge. As I zealously prepared to devour this modern-day ambrosia, I was struck with a horrible thought: I had forgotten to bring with me my Lactaid tablets! (Some of The Crimson's lactose-intolerant readers may not be aware that the Lactaid company also produces chewable tablets which enable some intolerants to digest milk products, if one-half...