Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once again, though, Joe Nye and his band of merry men will be leading a new troupe of drunken revelers through "International Conflicts in the Modern World" this spring...
Like another doomed (and much more enjoyable) summer movie, Prince's Under the Cherry Moon, this one attempts to fit a very modern one-name pop superstar into a traditional, golden-age Hollywood format. And why not? Who else has that old-time charisma? Only the bad boy and material girl of rock 'n' roll. With Prince it worked, mostly, because his blend of Little Richard and Little Egypt spiced the stew. But Madonna seems straitjacketed by her role, and Penn, for once, looks bored. She smiles, he glowers. Neither glows like the incandescent movie stars they can and will...
...seen fleeing the area. The post office bomb earlier in the week exploded only 165 yards from an office used by French Premier and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, killing a female postal worker. Chirac rushed to the scene from a meeting and later declared war on "this leprosy of modern times." President Francois Mitterrand called for "combat without mercy" against the terrorist menace...
...1960s in the U.S. and France. Such facsimiles, however, are invariably short-lived and harmless.) But these conditions, while obviously a necessary cause of revolution, are not sufficient. If they were, there would be revolution everywhere and always, since, aside from in a few countries in very modern times, poverty is the common condition of mankind...
...massive logs, gnarled stumps and matted leaves lying half buried on the rock-strewn hillside make it clear that a thick forest once stood there, trees that grew 150 ft. high and lived 1,000 years. "You can read the rings -- they look modern, like a lush forest area logged fairly recently," says Paleobotanist James Basinger of the University of Saskatchewan. "But then ) you look around, and you're in a desert. The only trees are dwarf willows one and two inches high." The sparse growth surrounding the half square mile of fallen trees is not surprising: the location...