Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help some of the thousands of U.S. citizens and residents with relatives in Mexico find out whether their kinfolk had survived. The U.S. State Department at first was able to communicate with its Mexico City embassy only by radio. Later, special telephone lines were established. The embassy, a massive modern building on the Reforma, was not damaged...
...most lethal was a temblor that devastated the city of Tangshan, China, in July 1976. While Peking later put the official death toll at 242,000, other estimates ranged as high as 750,000. The great San Francisco quake of 1906 was the most powerful in modern U.S. history; the tremor and resulting fires resulted in 700 casualties--not enough to make the list. Nor will last week's disaster in Mexico City, despite the heavy damage, unless the death total reaches 30,000. The ten most destructive quakes...
REDGRAVE PLAYS the incredibly sensitive schoolteacher with tremendous persuasion and sympathy; there's the hope that she'll take on another modern role--it's been at least a decade since her last one--because this performance is such a revelation. The depth Redgrave gives her character makes every move convincing, as when Jean risks making a similar "mistake" by letting another stranger into her life, this time a girl named Karen with whom Morgan had become obsessed. Suzanna Hamilton plays this variably vacant, furious, and wise creature with uncanny control. The police officer (Stuart Wilson) gets the best lines...
...least a bearable one. The idea of an eccentric scientist trying to clone his long dead wife bounces like a solid premise for a light comedy. Similarly, the tension in the film between God as reasonable and Reason as god might have been engaging, like the crunch of cold modern science and warm timelessly-fashioned love. And the acting of Peter O'Toole, who worked similar magic in The Stunt Man, should have been able to sustain the tension between the comic and philosophical elements in the character of the tastefully crazed academic...
...multi-billion dollar endowment as a political bludgeoning device. Bok has never stated that Harvard cannot allow educational objectives to filter outside the University's gates. Bok has always claimed that supplying education to those in need is not only an option, but an implicit obligation of a modern university. Far from contradicting earlier statements, the $1 million fund complements his theory...