Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Focusing her talk on the media's role in the recent blurring of lines between society's image of children and of adults, Adatto delivered her presentation against a backdrop of increasingly provocative images from the turn of the century up to modern pop advertisements. In words and pictures, Adatto chronicled the growing objectification of child sexuality in modern culture...
Then two things changed. A postwar Israeli burst of Kabbalah scholarship yielded modern Hebrew translations and annotations of vital texts. And seekers appeared. Many younger congregants yearning for individual spirituality became impatient with American Reform and Conservative Judaism's longtime emphasis on communal concerns such as Israel and synagogue building. Some left; some explored Eastern meditation. And some, notes author Rodger Kamenetz, decided that "Kabbalah is the poetic language of the Jewish soul...
...excellence of some of its contents, but largely in the adroitness of Christie's promotion. If there were any doubts about this, they were dispelled by the results of other sales last week, which were mediocre. Two nights after the Ganz sale, the Evelyn Sharp collection of modern art went on the block at Sotheby's. It was a second-rate affair at best, chopped liver compared with the Ganz foie gras. The auction house had given the Sharp estate a guarantee, undisclosed but somewhere near the low aggregate-sales estimate, which was $59 million. But the whole sale made...
...wonder Saddam Hussein wants to shoot 'em down. Even the most modern flyby satellites can't compete with this old aerial war-horse, which can skirt space 13 or more miles above the earth, peer at bad guys for eight hours or longer, plus take the most detailed photos. A U-2 primer...
...years Americans have enjoyed the privilege of waking up to a fresh-brewed caffeine fix or of heating up last night's lasagna in 90 seconds. Once worshiped, the automatic drip coffeemaker and the microwave oven have become generic symbols of modern domestic life. The toaster, the blender, the food processor--they're all taken for granted. Things have been simple for a while...