Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Davis, who specializes in early modern European history, will speak on gender and pardon tales in 16th century France. The pardon tales come from stories told to the king by women attempting to gain clemency for their alleged crimes...
WITH WIDE-RANGING and incisive comments on death, co-ops, language and television packed in into a General Hospital setting, it's clear that DeLillo has found another metaphor for attacking the metaphysical clutter of modern American life. From the mysterious link between football and nuclear war in End Zone, to the ennui of Star Wars style warfare in "Human Moments in World War III," DeLillo has proved himself to be the modern American master of fear and loathing...
Instead we brought that modern palliative, media exposure. Gary Hart would not be arriving at this shelter for homeless families for another half hour, so the press could only stand around the tiny chairs and two foot high table at which the youths sat. Three cameramen plagued the children with the bright lights necessary to bring their plight to the world and newsman wrote interesting little anecdotes into their notepads...
...soon to consign AMC to the corporate scrap heap. Its rugged if hardly racy Jeep Cherokee line continues to grow in popularity. Moreover, the company has built a modern $340 million plant near Toronto that will turn out spiffy new models designed to change AMC's reputation as a producer of small, unexciting cars. Says AMC President Joseph Cappy: "We are finally poised for that turnaround we've been talking about for so long...
...most frustrating thing about Sweettable is that it contains the seeds of a good play--or several good plays, for that matter. Ribman never decided whether he was composing a metaphor for modern Europe, a guilty-secrets melodrama, a French philosophical play or an English drawing-room comedy. So he tosses elements of all these genres into his pot, and serves up the dramatic equivalent of broccoli cheese pasta--limp, stringy, with an occasional lumpy mass that may once have been a theme or plot twist now rendered unrecognizable by incompetent writing. Sweettable is talking-head drama of the worst...