Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boylston Hall was last renovated in 1959, the first modern refurbishment of the Yard's older buildings...
Perhaps, in this age of post-modern politics, a television advertisement says...
...appears to have done the unexpected: it has not only reinvigorated the monarchy itself but has also burnished the picture of an intimate family unit--Charles, William and Harry, with increasingly regular appearances by Charles' longtime lover, Camilla Parker Bowles--that appears to be affectionate, complex, fun-loving and modern, the very territory the princess had staked out for herself. Says Harold Brooks-Baker, the publishing director of Burke's Peerage, a guide to all that is officially noble in Britain: "It's extraordinary that the person who in life did the most to destroy the House of Windsor...
...relationship with the press. In June he agreed to answer written questions submitted by the Press Association, which released the answers along with information from palace archives. Now it can be told: the young prince likes techno music, fast food and computer games. He likes shopping for his own "modern" clothes but also likes his Eton uniform: swallowtail jacket, striped trousers and starched shirt. Although his mother once mentioned that she wanted him to go to Harvard (his father went to Cambridge), he declined to say what university he wants to attend. When he got hit on the head...
...well as the art-gore montage of the winsome Janet Leigh being stabbed to death in a shower. For some, the thought of Gen X stars Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche replaying those parts seems like heresy. Not for Van Sant. "[Psycho] is perfect to refashion as a modern piece," he insists. "Reflections are a major theme in the original, with mirrors everywhere, characters who reflect each other. This version holds up a mirror to that film; it's sort of its schizophrenic twin...