Word: modernism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pictures insist that the crucial relationship is guy-guy. Peter has honed the wrong skills; in this movie he doesn't have to get the girl; he already has her. He has to become a supporter of Guy Marriage. And he needs another guy, someone who lives in the modern movie world, to teach him. Peter and Sydney represent old and new movie men as sure as Vivien Leigh's Blanche duBois and Marlon Brando's Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire cued the collision of old-movie refinement and the new brutalism...
...salvage programs in place or being considered, to save the national economy. The results of the failure of those plans are unimaginable. Almost no one living in America now was an adult during the early 1930s. It is impossible to imagine how 13% or 14% unemployment would affect the modern economy, just as there is no way to suss out what a 50% drop in housing prices from the 2006 peaks would do. Some economists believe that these problems will drive the nation into a decade of economic stagnation, while others would like to see the boil lanced no matter...
...strange and incriminating behavior, the drug abuse, the strange surgeries, his marriage to Elvis’ daughter…the list goes on. Since the first allegations emerged more than 15 years ago, the world has been a forced audience to one of the most bizarre stories of modern pop culture. Do people forget, or do they just not care? Perhaps on one hand, his fans are simple irrational fanatics who will show up no matter what. On the other hand though, it always seems that, with Michael Jackson, he is able to let just enough time pass before emerging...
...John Moody became the first financial analyst to assign letter grades to railroad bonds, giving investors an easier way to evaluate the rail companies' debt. It was the beginning of one of the most powerful forces in modern capitalism. Today a small club of bond-rating agencies, led by Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch, wields enormous power, sending investors scrambling simply by changing the ratings that the firms assign to everything from Ireland's sovereign debt to General Electric's IOUs. They are pilloried for having wildly overestimated the quality of mortgage-related securities...
...basic tenets of church teaching - not to mention the extent of the AIDS epidemic and disproportionate ignorance about condom use in Africa - why did the Pope say what he said, when and where he said it? What do this and other recent episodes tell us about how the modern papacy operates at that unique nexus where philosophy meets public relations? And why, nearly four years into his reign, does this hyper-articulate and well-versed Pope continue to see his attempts at mass communication blow up in his face? (See pictures of the path of Pope Benedict...