Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many admirers saw Dallas as a modern-day version of the rugged individual of the Old West. He was the subject of a CBS-TV movie last year, "Manhunt: Search for Claude Dallas," which many critics said romanticized the killer...
...testing ideas about how stars and galaxies work and how abundances of heavy elements are created." The reason for the superlatives being expressed by Arnett and other astronomers is that this is $ the first supernova close enough to the earth to be scrutinized in fine detail by modern astronomical techniques...
...Weavers galvanize everyone around them. The already spectacular level of drinking escalates, as Alun and his mates gather each midday at the Bible and Crown, the local pub. From there, it is on to expeditions in search of other watering houses that have not been rendered horrible by modern redecoration. At one such ruined spot, Peter pays ironic tribute to the affluent society: "In the bad old days only very rich people could hope to enjoy surroundings like these. Now they're within the reach of all." While the men pub-crawl, the wives gossip, drink wine and discuss...
Klein also took to plunging in among crowds to shoot point blank, so that faces meet the lens with mostly tentative expressions. As Manet had done a century earlier in his paintings, Klein recognized in the suspended gaze one of the chief signifiers of the modern temper. But judged by the canons of good photography, those pictures looked fumbled, invertebrate. Klein's anarchic strengths went unappreciated by eyes looking for nice tonal gradations and the standard ironies. Where were the compositional ligaments that held even the airiest Andre Kertesz photo in an iron fist? Where was the fine printing...
Although laden with several conspicuous flaws, The War Years nevertheless holds together as an evening's entertainment--an enjoyable, if not entirely credible, journey to the time when the seeds of a modern world were just beginning to germinate under the fertilizer of a world destroyed. If you happen to be in the Adams House basement, check...