Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Above everything, I hope the audience got a sense of what South Asia is like," Naidu says. "It's such a diverse culture, and to see all the parts--from the traditional, to the modern, to the Fusion dance, which combined salsa and classical and pop and freestyle--was incredible...
...history has always been what it likes to call "underlying material," a lode of legend, conveniently located in the public domain, from which it can quarry inspirational tales of resistance to tyranny, redemption from injustice. From The Life of Emile Zola to Braveheart, audiences bedeviled by the ambiguities of modern life have derived moral instruction and emotional uplift from these transformations of the complex past into simple, glowing metaphorical guides to right behavior...
...would Ingres have liked this show, the first ever dedicated to his portraits? Impossible to guess. He might have objected to seeing what he considered the lesser part of his work isolated from the greater part, the paintings of history and myth. A modern viewer couldn't care less, and shouldn't. For with the passage of time, Ingres's portraits have become history paintings in their own right...
...convinced Sparks, 66, a Northwestern University art historian, that they could ease into a warm retirement if she taught at the University of Mississippi. The couple also wanted to live in a place where they could both keep learning, and the university--a five-minute drive from their large modern wood and brick home--offered free classes to anyone over 65 and "brown bag" lectures on a wide variety of topics...
...political hotbed during the Revolution and later became the first capital of the state. The red-brick Georgian palace, set on 14 acres of lush gardens and grounds, is among the town's more than 150 landmark buildings. But the biggest appeal of New Bern may simply be its modern amenities. Three years ago, Bob and Sandy Stevens moved from Chicago to Taberna, a golfing community on Brice's Creek, just five miles from town...