Word: modern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Love," sad to say, has become a modern-day cliche. Writing about love has turned into the pasttime of high school poets. The literary romance with love that bloomed more than a century ago has withered, replaced by triteness and a suspicion of sincerity. Yet Da, advertised as "an irresistible comedy" portrays paternal--and filial--love with remarkable realism and sensitivity. Da is irresistible because its love has charmisma: it is cheery and optimistic, cute and funny, honest and poignant. Superbly acted by Barnard Hughes, who played the title role 549 times of Broadway before hitting the road, this version...
High atop the House of Kirkland, surrounded by all the comforts of a modern-day baronet (water bed, stand up bar, powerful stereo) lives the man who will carry the lance in Saturday's joust against Yale. Even if the foe unseats him, his name will still resound like that of a king: Judson Burke St. John...
...fifth of all the spaghetti eaten here. It is American owned and run according to all the newest methods. All steel and glass, humming machinery, it is a symbol of the new Italy, the post-war industrial revolution that has transformed a rural agricultural-based economy into a modern industrial state. Northern Italians have watched that transformation: the grandparents belong to a rural world, a preindustrial way of life that had continued almost unchanged for centuries and centuries. Their grandchildren are grewing up in a society that is in many aspects indistinguishable from America...
With heating, mercury lights bright enough to perform surgery under, a new, expanded ice surface, more comfortable and plentiful seating, and a modern, clean design, the new Harvard facility brings the Crimson a much-needed, spacious home...
...Darmstadt: its few objects in a glass case-blocks of fat on a battered electric hot plate, moldering sausages, a mummified rat on a straw bed, a diagram of the camp, a drawing of a child-are perhaps the most poignant, and certainly the least exploitative, image in modern art of that catastrophe...