Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delta Force is a collection of modern heroes, like the lonely range riders who galloped from town to town to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. For the Delta Force, the modernday righteous sheriff, the hang-em-high brand of frontier justice means criminals can't escape through the maze of over-bureaucratized courts or tangled international relations. Their kind of justice also means that weeping families get a taste of revenge...
Like earlier immigrant gangs, observes Manhattan-based U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, the new arrivals "at the core are acting as parasites on their own people." In classic fashion they concentrate at first on shaking down local merchants. One difference, officials agree, is that the modern gang is vastly more violent and better armed than its predecessors. The Viet Ching, Vietnamese of Chinese extraction in Los Angeles, pack .357 Magnums and, occasionally, machine guns. In San Francisco, says Inspector John McKenna, "it's not uncommon to see guys carrying grenades...
...christened Alcyone, after the daughter of the Greek god of wind, but the ancient Greeks never saw her like. The sailing ship harnesses the wind with a superefficient system of cylindrical aluminum "turbo sails." The 72- ton vessel also has engines and was developed by Neptune's modern descendant, Jacques Cousteau, and two other French designers who hoped to show that the sails could save some conventional ships up to 35% on fuel bills. Setting out on her maiden voyage from France five weeks ago, the ship made stops in the ! Azores and Bermuda before arriving last week...
...Historian Dawn Ades acutely notes in her catalog essay to the Tate show, there is a lot in common between Bacon's vision of human affairs and the neurasthenic, broken allusiveness of early Eliot -- a cinematic, quick-cutting mixture of "nostalgia for classical mythology, the abruptness of modern manners, the threat of the unseen and the eruption of casual violence." Some lines from Eliot's "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" are quite Baconian...
...into his 13th and best mystery novel, Robert B. Parker explicitly acknowledges what he is up to: he seeks to re-create, in contemporary context, the medieval quest. In A Catskill Eagle, his hard-boiled detective, Spenser, vows to rescue a maiden imprisoned in a tower. But the modern world, with its complexities ranging from feminism to the military- industrial complex, has all but nullified the chance for such straightforward valor. The "maiden" is Spenser's estranged girlfriend, Susan Silverman; her supposed captor is Spenser's rival for her love; her disappearance may in fact be voluntary; her guards...