Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desired end of this film was to argue for the presence of mystery in the modern world. Instead, the film demonstrates how modern man, and modern film, often chooses to answer real worldly and spiritual questions by taking a cowardly agnostic duck. To paraphrase the Good Lord, I'll take a hot movie or a cold movie anyday, but a lukewarm movie unsettles my popcorn...
Tennis Team, Godspell, The Volunteer--McLean Hospital, Radcliffe Dance--Tap and Modern...
Mainly Jazz Dance Co., H/R Modern Dance Co., Chamber Dance Fusemble President. Summers: Public Relations, Summers Cancer Research...
DIED. Italo Calvino, 61, Italian author of fanciful imagination and technical virtuosity who used surreal fables and phantasmagorical science fiction to express thoroughly modern, realistic observations on human absurdity; of complications following a stroke; in Siena, Italy. A Resistance fighter during World War II, he drew on his partisan experiences in early, realistic works like The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947), but turned more and more to fantasy in such books as The Baron in the Trees (1957), Invisible Cities (1973), The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1974) and If on a Winter Night a Traveler...
...Natural History in Washington and a fair on Washington's mall. By the end, the festival will have involved some 500 events in 90 cities in 36 states and ranged from displays of sculpture in Cleveland and calligraphy in Iowa City, Iowa, to a demonstration of ancient and modern Indian science in Charlotte, N.C. Some events touch directly on politics: California State University at Long Beach will hold a seminar on the centenary of India's National Congress, forerunner of India's ruling Congress (I) Party. The estimated total cost: $15 million, $5 million from the Indian government, the remainder...