Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graton, however, does not adhere to traditional techniques in matters of bridge building alone. He also prefers old-fashioned ways of doing business, and has always tried to avoid lengthy contracts, performance bonds, "pre- qualification registration," and other such modern advances. On one job, when Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials demanded that a safety net be suspended below the span on which Graton and his crew were working, Graton complied, in his fashion: he balled up a net and tied it in a bundle under the bridge...
...marked by three museum shows. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., will exhibit 45 of his pictures later this month. Sixty are going up in December at the Art Institute of Chicago. But the real Weston juggernaut opened earlier this month at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: a sweeping retrospective of 237 prints. Organized by the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography and selected by Beaumont Newhall, the gray eminence of photo history, the exhibition will run in San Francisco through Feb. 15, then travel over the next two years to a dozen other...
...even in the modern era, Gould says "Mantle's 1957 season is unsurpassed." Gould cites Mantle's on-base percentage of .512, which no player since Mantle in 1957 has come close to beating. "Willie Mays only reached .425 in his best year," he says...
Then Person Two, for some bizarre reason that baffles even the most delicate instruments of modern-day science, decides that Person One want to hear complaints about school work...
...acting of the ensemble ranges from fair to comically bad, and this too puts a hold on Freinkel's invention. But even so, she did not go far enough: in trying to mingle modern theatrical ideas with traditional Shakespearean performance, Freinkel has created a play with more internal conflicts than even Macbeth himself. Given the problems of producing college Shakespeare, perhaps she should have adopted a less reverent attitude and an even more experimental appraoch. Like its accursed protagonist, this production of Macbeth seems "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in to saucy doubts and fears...