Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hayes said the burning of carbon dioxide-producing diesel fuels is part of our habit of "running today's world on nineteenth century technology," which he called outdated and inefficient...
Tucked away on the second floor of the Fogg, right around the corner nineteenth-century traveling communion set and next door to "France and the Portrait, 1799-1870" is the tiny Lehman Gallery, home to "Building Representation: Photography and Architecture, Contemporary Interactions" through April 11. Deborah Kao, Associate Curator of Photographs, and Martin Kao, lecturer at the Graduate School of Design, have skillfully assembled an exhibit of 18 large-scale works by contemporary photographers who manipulate architectural spaces through the camera lens...
...particularly charming or memorable, they do ridiculous things for adults under uninspired direction and the audience laps it up. They sing competently, okay, even well, but they dance tepidly. And the premise of the show, the reason for this massive bouffanted brouhaha, is, like, let's have a nineteenth century variety show, because it's that time of the year which lends itself so perfectly to all things excessive and unnecessary...
...program, incorporating themes and plot devices common throughout the Star Trek series. It relies on a storyline with a strong moral dimension--the quality which truly sets Star Trek apart from most other science fiction TV programs and movies. Like the TV series, this movie is also full of nineteenth and twentieth century references: when Data malfunctions, Captain Picard calls him back to reality by singing Gilbert and Sullivan. In the twenty-fourth century universe of Star Trek, such references might seem anachronistic, but they allow the audience to connect with the story, despite its distant-future setting...
...addition to play diagrams from the football games, the Bulletin ran stories about lectures held at the University on topics ranging from nineteenth-century English law to venereal diseases...