Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite her dominance on the playing fields and in the rink, the Kirkland House resident could hardly be considered one-dimensional. A modern European history concentrator focusing in Russian Studies, Joslin is planning to write her thesis on the history of imperial Russia...
...Modern horror movies also play on the fears of the society that produces them, King said. "I don't think its any coincidence that the first of radioactive movies should come out of Japan," he said referring to Godzilla, a film whose monster was awakened by radioactive bomb tests...
ANDY WARHOL: A RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The first comprehensive look since the artist's 1987 death at what made him, for better or worse, the top of the pops. Through...
...19th century, the modern world was taking shape, in some respects the shape that photography gave it. The new art form fostered the trend by which the antique notion of fame was supplanted by the more salable idea of celebrity. And in the great age of imperial expansion, the camera was just the tool to bring home views of the exotic places that had been gathered in by the Western powers...
Next to Muzak and talking cash registers, few spin-offs of modern technology are as irritating as the junk phone call. At virtually any hour of the night or day, the unsuspecting telephone subscriber is likely to receive unsolicited sales pitches -- some of them prerecorded -- for anything from opera tickets to Oriental rugs. But what about Dial-a-Communicant? That is just what a number of church groups across the U.S. have taken up in an effort to found churches or attract additional members...