modernity

In an age when every middle-class household could afford a few hearth gods, the superior collector consummated his passion for beauty against the “prevailing winds of progress, fashion, democracy, money, and modernity.”

She may be one of history’s most famous and powerful women, but she’s also a bridge between antiquity and modernity.

Garrett then takes one major step further, looking at the sickly side of modernity through the lens of the MeToo movement.

Gelatin wasn’t a punchline; it was progress, the same way Tang was progress, the same way a shelf-stable “cheese food” promised modernity.

They veiled the stage in gauze on “Copy of A,” casting dozens of Reznor shadows while he strutted and howled about a despondent, depersonalized modernity.