Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HANOVER, N.H.--The Harvard football team's 20-7 domination of the Big Green marked its second straight victory in Hanover, the first time in the modern history of the rivalry that has happened...
...Beowulf of all poems, does not seem in desperate need of another translation, Originally written sometime between the eighth and 10th centuries, it has been exhaustively redone into prose, verse, literal verse, alliterative verse and "modern" alliterative verse, in dozens of different languages...
That the white-haired lawmaker is in the toughest race of his life is a measure of just how much has changed in South Carolina and the South since Hollings went to Washington. A progressive Governor who integrated the schools and nudged an old agricultural state into the modern age, Ernest ("Fritz") Hollings became one of the region's Democratic bulls. Now he is stranded in one of the most Republican states in a region that has been transformed from a Democratic to a G.O.P. stronghold. That has the G.O.P. in Washington giddy, pouring resources into a bid to remove...
...weaknesses of modern international law is that large sections of it are not international," he said...
...overuse of gaudy props (i.e. silly string which makes several repeat appearances as a vomit substitute) one begins to wonder if this isn't Shakespeare as it was meant to be. A frequent object of ridicule throughout the show are Shakespeare companies that fret about making Shakespeare accessible to modern audiences. The show suggests that it is not Shakespeare, but the standard notions of how Shakespeare should be produced that are inaccessible. Men dressed as men, women as women, and the whole lot of them speaking lines too naturalistically for the humor to be understood--this is the vision...