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...Twentieth Century Fox Films...
...perky senior a great athlete (she's an All-American in lacrosse), but she's a serious student as well. The 21-year-old history major is a Group II student working on a thesis about the role of women in the national movement in Ireland in the early twentieth century...
...flavor of this neighborhood is decidedly historical. Even the swarms of tourists (constantly reminding you that you are indeed in the twentieth century) are unable to dispel the atmosphere of antiquity that clings to the brick walls and cobblestoned streets...
Picasso's life "was, in a very real sense, the twentieth century's own autobiography," Huffington writes at one point. That statement can be seen as the epigraph for the book's failings, as well as for the man it seeks to portray, because the book embraces wholeheartedly the narrow commonplaces which comprise bestselling books today. If there are no heroes, only 15-minute celebrities, then the People magazine school of biography is appropriate for cultural figures...
...Spanish president said Franco's regime could not have produced such advances because it discouraged innovation. Seeing this, said Gonzalez, the Spanish people have come to realize that the Spanish nation-state of the nineteenth century was inept at confronting twentieth century international political problems and the future...