Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your otherwise splendid story on the new economy [May 30], TIME should have pointed out that the number of sophisticated jobs likely to be created by high technology is going to be disappointingly modest. According to Labor Department projections for the '80s, the U.S. will need 1.3 million additional janitors, nurses' aides and orderlies, but only 150,000 new computer programmers. For the majority of American workers, the high-tech age will further reduce the level of skills required...
...action switches to the Vergerus house, where the folks are really mean, does the film come to life. Not to worry: that leaves two hours of good movie from an old master. At film's end, one Ekdahl pays tribute to the power of the imagination: "a splendid force held in trust for us by all artists." Moviegoers can be grateful that the force is still with Ingmar Bergman...
...Coup de Foudre, French Film Maker Diane Kurys (Peppermint Soda) etched an acute, critical portrait of her own family in the early 1950s and drew splendid performances from Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert and Guy Marchand. Chantal Akerman, a Belgian director whose monumental minimalist soap opera, the 1975 Jeanne Dielman, has made her queen of the European film avantgarde, confounded all expectations with a sprightly, witty musical called The '80s. The Cannes audience came to snooze and stayed to cheer...
...perhaps too definitive for all but the most dedicated Pepysians? The editors have thought of that too. The solution is a splendid one-volume abridgment with lots of color pictures: The Illustrated Pepys. As the Victorian editors represented their times, the modern editors reflect theirs: the political history is much condensed, the bawdy parts all included...
...Derby, the Preakness and-by the length of a football field-the Belmont Stakes, that was forgotten. Racing had gone 25 years between Triple Crowns, making the feat seem mystical. Then, at a gallop, came Triple Crown Winners Seattle Slew (1977) and Affirmed (1978), and other demonstrably splendid horses of the '70s: Spectacular Bid, Alydar, Ruffian...