Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here is where modernism and tradition meet as snugly as two curved tracks in a set of electric trains. It is a given that this is an age of futurism and intricacy in toys, and indeed some Transformers are wondrous and devilish at once. The Decepticon Trypticon (about $56) is a gray, green and purple animated dinosaur that turns -- with some flips, tucks and fast snaps -- into an entire city. Transformers (a mainstay of Toy & Hobby World's Toy Hit Parade) have lots of modern dash, but electric trains still have romance enough to lure any kid away from...
Master Aloian helped to create the kind of house community from which everyone associated with the house benefitted. Under Aloian's direction, the courtyard was transformed from a post-modern cement nightmare into a grassy, comfortable meeting place complete with lawn furniture. He bought a VCR for the house, which any student can use and encouraged students to use the Junior Common Room--whether as TV room, dance hall, meeting room or art gallery...
...finishing a fourth book, "Women in Early Modern Europe," which will be published at the end of the year by Knopf publishers...
Hufton will leave "a personal chair" at England's University of Reading where she taught courses on early modern European history, the history of women, and the history of the 18th century, she said...
...good. And with the resume an acknowledged post-modern poetic form, you'll do great...