Word: modernizations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tombstone had the climate, a desert that bursts alive in spring, the San Pedro Valley, Dragoon Mountains to the north, Huachucas to the south, and sunsets that turned the land lavender. With fresh paint, new lumber and much of America out on the open road in the modern prairie schooner, the motor home, Tombstone was back in business, a going concern. The town hummed along selling tours of the cemetery and the O.K. Corral, silver and turquoise jewelry, antique mining implements, as well as the regrettable curios of the day: plastic scorpions, John Wayne on velvet, Elvis dinner plates...
...20th century, says Stern, "is one of the richest periods in musical creativity." A discriminating advocate of contemporary violin music who has given premieres of concertos by William Schuman, George Rochberg and Krzysztof Penderecki, Stern has had a privileged view of modern musical history; in June he will premiere a work by Britain's iconoclastic Peter Maxwell Davies in Scotland. The phantasmagorical Dutilleux concerto was commissioned by Radio France in celebration of Stern's 60th birthday almost six years ago ("He had problems about coming to an end," says Stern, explaining the delay) and was first performed in Paris last...
...building and testing of the first atom bomb is one of the century's great stories. So it takes a bit of nerve to turn this modern Promethean tale into a popular thriller, especially if the hero is a Pueblo Indian Army sergeant who is also a prizefighter, jazz pianist and catnip to the ladies...
...rudimentary--no laser blades here, just an endless arsenal of singing swords. Nor did the heroes and heroines of these chivalrous tales have much vitality; they were as pure as toothpaste, and as sexy. How could the Forces of Evil defeat these perfect folk? And how could the modern moviegoer care? Only Conan the Barbarian made much box-office noise, perhaps because it had Attila Schwarzenegger punching out entire races as if he were a Dark Ages "Duke" Wayne...
...today is openness and honesty," says Larry Barnett, founder of Carolyn Bean, a San Francisco card company. Barnett says he has seen women buying emotional cards in bunches, building "a library of sentiments." Says Neil Robinson, a young Washington writer and law student: "Cards have become a part of modern courtship and friendship...