Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LOVERBOY. Delivering pizza in Beverly Hills offers all sorts of erotic opportunities -- and comic ones too -- in this cheeky romantic romp. Patrick Dempsey has the charm, and director Joan Micklin Silver the knack, to bring off a modern farce in the classic style...
...Adieu." Nearly 30 years later, Updike's achievement seems as secure as Williams' 1941 batting mark of .406. He turns out to be the better writer, even the tougher reporter. But readers who want to savor a memoir of two outsize ball clubs and the rude dawn of modern baseball can turn with relish to Halberstam...
...anthology ended with a collection of modern poetry from such writers as John Berryman and Robert Lowell, as well as a poem by Frank O'Hara, whose work was first performed by the original Poets' Theatre in the 1950s...
...number of Egyptians increases, people have spilled out of the cities in search of housing. The Giza Plateau, once far from urban sprawl, now lies almost in the shadow of modern apartment buildings. Nearby factories and old vehicles spew forth noxious clouds of particulate-laden exhaust, which becomes corrosive when dissolved by rain. Vibrations from traffic produce cracks in the monuments. More serious still is the damage caused by water. An estimated 80% of Cairo's incoming water supply escapes from leaking pipes into the ground. And the aging sewerage system, built 75 years ago to serve a population...
...ENVIRONMENT: Modern pressures mean perilous times for the pyramids and other antiquities...