Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four years of media attention? For example, the media frequently does no more than gloss over the fact that Jackson has never held an elected office before. Yet if Jackson receives the nomination for either president or vice president, his lack of political credentials will be almost unique in modern U.S. politics...
...warm wood trim of the car's interior--described in loving detail as "a secluded chamber of Connolly leather and burled walnut." A well-worn satchel and a map lie carefully placed on the seat awaiting, presumably, use in some grand adventure. The ad portrays an atmosphere of modern royalty--variously referring to the car as a "kingdom" which costs "only a youngish prince's ransom...
Written by William Inge (Bus Stop), the play attempts to recreate life in a small Kansas town in the 1950s. But to a modern audience, the script seems little more than an inept recapitulation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, without any of the characteristics that have made that play endure...
...funniest thing in the play is when one of the characters sees Millie reading Carson McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Cafe and warns her mother of its pernicious content. But Millie is saved by Alan, who tells the mother that the book is on the reading list for the modern novel course at his college. Alas, even the play's overt humor eludes the cast...
Carpenter, who was born in 1920, said that older people should take advantage of the time granted to them by God and modern technology to engage in creative activities...