Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...security interests of the United States, our friends or our allies." The Administration reiterated its objections: the U.S. must continue testing to check the reliability of its stockpiles, a ban could not be properly verified, further testing is needed to develop new warheads for the nation's modern arsenal. The President's aides do not like to mention that a ban would also slow development of the Strategic Defense Initiative...
Watch out, America, full moon's coming. That's when a wily psychopath -- a werewolf of modern paranoid fantasies -- turns some idyllic suburban home into a slaughterhouse. And when anyone wanders too close, the psycho (Tom Noonan) festers into action. A tabloid journalist (Stephen Lang) ends up flambeed in a runaway wheelchair. A photo-lab technician (Joan Allen), whose blindness has not inhibited her taste for sexual adventure, invites the psycho home and is soon in mortal peril. His only nemesis is Will Graham (William L. Petersen), an ex-FBI agent who uses a kind of Method forensics to identify...
...bird's wide eye sockets, a large braincase and a breastbone designed to anchor muscles used in flight. Tiny bumps along Protoavis' forelimbs could indicate where feathers were attached. Explains Chatterjee: "Because some birds in the Cretaceous period (which began about 130 million years ago) were very modern, many scientists speculated that the first birds should be older than Archaeopteryx, yet more advanced. This is that bird...
...there is nothing like unanimity in the assessments of Wyeth's stature as a modern American artist. Theodore Stebbins, curator of paintings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, puts Wyeth "in a category all by himself. Being what he is brings up debate on what art is: realism vs. abstraction. He is a beautiful draftsman, a brilliant watercolorist, a very fine painter. In his field, Wyeth is an outstanding figure." Many critics in the Manhattan art scene, however, find him stubbornly irrelevant. "Wyeth's philosophy is Poor Richard's Almanack," sniffs Henry Geldzahler, former curator of 20th century...
Serpell's pet theories embrace the familiar argument that modern culture has placed artificial barriers between man and the natural world. Like many who confront this idea, he can be nostalgic in his definitions. The hunter- gatherers of the ice age, for example, are idealized as the beneficiaries of a golden period. Animals were considered edible but equal; protein was plentiful, and work hours fewer than they would ever be when Homo sapiens organized into agricultural communities...