Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last summer's well-hyped Museum of Modern Art exhibit devoted to the anxious, determinedly unlikable architecture called deconstructivist was the signal design event of 1988. Not, as its enthusiasts hoped, because it galvanized the profession and fascinated the public, but because it was so anticlimactic, a bust. We have seen architecture's future, and its name is not deconstructivism...
Those tendencies were compounded by the Enlightenment notion of a mechanistic universe that man could shape to his own ends through science. The exuberant optimism of that world view was behind some of the greatest achievements of modern times: the invention of laborsaving machines, the discovery of anesthetics and vaccines, the development of efficient transportation and communication systems. But, increasingly, technology has come up against the law of unexpected consequences. Advances in health care have lengthened life-spans, lowered infant-mortality rates and, thus, aggravated the population problem. The use of pesticides has increased crop yields but polluted water supplies...
PAINTING IN RENAISSANCE SIENA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The gentle, graceful 15th century fragments and miniatures in this scrupulous show offer a respite from the brutish realities of modern life. Through March...
...form of generalization, and the greatness of this film derives, finally, from its specificity. Pelle is rich in characters and subplots, and as the seasons turn, they intersect, diverge and intersect again, forming a rough, wonderfully textured weave, unlike anything one is used to brushing against in the modern cinema. The boy's chief tormentor is a trainee manager, an arrogant ninny. The figure Pelle most admires, because his courage contrasts so vividly with Lasse's discouragement, is the farm's resident revolutionist, risking all, losing all (in the film's most shattering passage), by boldly leading a short-lived...
...available on a global basis would require that the $3 billion now spent annually on family-planning services be increased to $8 billion by the year 2000. The increase in funds could shave projected world population from 10 billion to 8 billion over the next 60 years. However, few modern contraceptive methods are ideally suited to the daily lives of Third World citizens. Two-thirds of the 60 million users of condoms, diaphragms and sponges live in the industrialized world. Men in developing countries frequently view condoms as a threat to their masculine image; women often find diaphragms impractical since...