Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screenplay, written by Nora Ephron (Heartburn), traces the love/hate relationship between the two from their first meeting on a cross-country trip after they graduate from college to their marriage 12 years later. Throughout it all, Harry and Sally maintain a hysterical debate on the nature of modern relationships and the ability of each sex to understand the other...
...beginning of the movie is predicatable but funny, with Ryan as an uptight good girl who doesn't eat between meals, and Crystal playing an arrogant and morbid bullshit-artist. It reads like the old boy-meets-girl formula, with a modern twist...
Another Nixonesque argument is that economic sanctions would force China to cut itself off from the rest of the world, Yang says, countering that in the modern era, China already has too many ties to other nations to be able to isolate itself...
...things are a little different now, and the producers of the latest Bond venture, Licence to Kill, know it. People are jaded now; the threat of nuclear Armageddon doesn't seem to faze them. Bye-bye SPECTRE, bye-bye SMIRSH, there is a new agent of terror in the modern world...
...Bend in the River changed Western perceptions of the underdeveloped world. Free of their colonial keepers, new nations had to confront their own hearts of darkness. In Africa the author found tribalism overgrowing hopes of progress; in India he observed that poverty was more dehumanizing than any modern machine. Eight years before Salman Rushdie outraged the Imam, Naipaul had pinpointed the problem of true believers: "In the fundamentalist scheme the world constantly decays and has constantly to be re-created. The only function of intellect is to assist that re-creation...