Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairman has been intent on revamping GM into an agile performer that can compete successfully against the Japanese. To reach that goal, he has been creating more daring deals than any of his predecessors since the 1920s, when Alfred P. Sloan Jr. welded a jumble of companies into the modern...
...comes from TIME's art critic, Robert Hughes, who this week offers a provocative assessment of contemporary U.S. art. Hughes is eminently qualified for his subject. He was the creator and host of the 1981 eight-part PBS series The Shock of the New: The Life and Death of Modern Art, and its forthcoming sequel, American Visions. In addition, he is a two-time winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism...
...True Cross, I realized that I could never in conscience give my own work a decent review." After nine years of free-lance writing he came to TIME in 1970. Today, he says, "I think of this job as the best possible periscope through which to view modern Western...
...Vegas, whose towering, grandiose signs Writer Tom Wolfe once characterized as "Boomerang Modern" and "Flash Gordon Ming-Alert Spiral," neon has not faded. The skyline remains an electric testimony to a raw and rambunctious American spirit. With its arrival elsewhere in so many shops and galleries and trendy facades, neon, which after all is the Greek word for new, seems to have found a means of staying that way. The medium has learned to bend with changing tastes...
...Kern tune like They Didn't Believe Me is to realize how elegantly it obeys the laws of melody and mathematics: each succeeding phrase is both surprising and inevitable. In that one song, written for the 1914 show The Girl from Utah, Kern virtually created the prototype for the modern American ballad. From that moment (when his music was already entrancing a couple of teenagers named Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin) to this (when Composers Stephen Sondheim and Milton Babbitt have written appreciations of his work), Kern's revolution has continued unsilenced. It should last for another hundred years...