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	Community Profile / Brentwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Modern Times was hacked out of Islip Town's pine barrens in 1851 by Warren and Andrews, an unconventional radical lawyer and ardent women's rights advocate.
		Modern Times was one of the last of about 50 experimental American communities in the mid-1800s.
		He thinks the social radicals who founded Modern Times would be pleased to know that the land in which they incubated their utopian dreams has offered opportunity and promise to so diverse a population 147 years later.
	www.newsday.com /extras/lihistory/spectown/hist005i.htm (786 words)

	DVD Review - Modern Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I’m willing to bet that "Modern Times," Chaplin’s 1936 cautionary comedy warning against the encroachment of arrogant technology on an unsuspecting humanity, inspired the later achievements of an stellar list of filmmakers who taxed the limits of their film technology to tell a story with an anti-technology message.
		As a result, there is a misconception that "Modern Times" is a silent film and, as such, would hardly be considered a film utilizing the full capabilities of the medium at the time of its making.
		At times, David is so technical in his discussions about music timing, Chaplin’s composing style (he had an ear for melodies, but no formal training) and various aspects of film music composition that one feels that he is addressing a fellow composer or musician.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/modern_times.shtml (1365 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Cinema - Modern Times
		Modern Times is a film born of anger and despair.
		Overlooking the subtleties of Modern Times, the Nazis denounced the film - always a good sign - and it was banned in Germany where the burgeoning fascist movement accused it of promoting communism.
		Chaplin's timing and extraordinary imagination are employed to brilliant effect, making this a comic as well as cautionary tale.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/modern-times.shtml (391 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: MODERN TIMES review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		MODERN TIMES puts The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) in the middle of the Depression, a state that encompassed the world when this film was released.
		Meanwhile The Tramp becomes involved with The Gamin (Paulette Goddard), a street urchin whose father is killed, leaving her to fend for herself in a cruel world.
		The bad news is that the sound is upstaged much of the time by static and a low hum.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/moderntimes.htm (863 words)

	Modern Times (1936)
		From the opening notes of the rich orchestral score to the first and last time the voice of "The Little Tramp" is heard near the end of the film, the effect is of a film that speaks with a clear, well-rounded voice.
		Modern Times was Chaplin’s examination of contemporary society.
		Modern Times appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.37:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /moderntimes.shtml (1525 words)

	Modern Times (1936)
		A silent film consciously made for the sound era, Modern Times is a comic masterpiece that remains approachable today even for movie lovers raised on computer imaging and surround sound.
		Witness the subtlety and comic timing of the scene in which the Tramp is arrested for communist agitation.
		Modern Times ends on a note that is both true to this heritage and also softens it.
	www.decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/1671 (1498 words)

	Chaplin Essay #5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Thus in Modern Times, a largely silent film Chaplin released as late as 1936, Charlie and his female counterpart, the Gamine, are "the only two live spirits in a world of automatons," as "spiritual escapees from a world in which [Chaplin] saw no other hope" (Robinson 1985: 459).
		The film's workers are likened to sheep in the opening shot, and in one of the most famous sequences, Charlie himself is caught in the cogs of a vicious machine and, later, feeds a meal to a poor devil caught, perhaps forever, deep in the bowels of another metal monster.
		Modern Times, for whatever it's worth, was seen as more political a film than Chaplin's previous efforts; quite frankly, its indictment of a segment of society made it that way.
	wso.williams.edu /~dgerstei/chaplin/machines.html (1165 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Modern Times: The Chaplin Collection
		Modern Times was the final film to star the Tramp, and the difference between this Tramp and his formative years in the classic shorts (1914-1923) is worth noting.
		Modern Times literalizes common fears that those workers lucky enough to have jobs were dehumanized by mechanization and by a corporate mindset that valued productivity over basic humanity.
		Modern Times is packed front to back with sound effects, voices issuing from machines, and Chaplin's own musical score (which made his song "Smile" a standard for generations).
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/m/moderntimes.shtml (4115 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Modern Times
		The film's theme is spelled out in the foreword that runs after the opening credits: "'Modern Times.' A story of industry, of individual enterprise--humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness." The film then opens with an overhead shot of a flock of sheep rushing through a chute.
		The modern industrial laborer's predicament is symbolized by a scene in which the Tramp is sucked inside a huge machine while oiling it, passing through its myriad gears like just another part in the mechanism.
		Modern Times was promoted by the studio as Chaplin's first sound film, but that is something of a misnomer.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100821 (498 words)

	Modern Times (1936)
		In Modern Times (1936), the still-silent Tramp, with his familiar small Derby hat, mustache, large boots, baggy pants, tight jacket and cane makes his last screen appearance.
		The foreword explains the film's theme: "'Modern Times.' A story of industry, of individual enterprise - humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness." The film opens with an overhead shot of a flock of sheep jostling in their sheep pen, and rushing through a chute.
		At lunch time, the break is sounded and the line stops, but the Tramp is so programmed that he starts tightening buttons on a woman's bottom.
	www.filmsite.org /mode.html (1408 words)

	Modern Times
		Modern Times is an emotional response, based always in comedy, to the circumstances of the times.
		In Modern Times he is one of the millions coping with poverty, unemployment, strikes and strikebreakers, and the tyranny of the machine (Robinson 458-9).
		The speech in Modern Times is a parody of speech (and perhaps a very pointed attack on the talkie); it indicates the displacement of people in a society in which the machine is dominant.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/FILM/chaplin/meth9.html (1506 words)

	The Modern Library \| Authors
		This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the center of human activity and the acme of civilization.
		Now that he is the best-selling author of vast historical surveys written from a conservative perspective, works that include ''Modern Times,'' ''A History of the Jews,'' ''A History of Christianity'' and ''The Birth of the Modern,'' he can't touch them.
		The book that made him popular in America and a hero to conservatives was ''Modern Times,'' a political history of the 20th century published in 1983.
	www.randomhouse.com /modernlibrary/pjohnson.html (2910 words)

	Quake Upgraded To 9.2 - Biggest In Modern Times
		It is the largest earthquake known to modern civilization with a reading of close to 9.2 in Richter scale.
		Never ever in the known human history in modern times, an earthquake happened that broke 1000 miles of fault line.
		The survey now says the quake centered off the west coast of northern Sumatra, has been upgraded to a 9.2 magnitude, making it the one of the largest earthquake since 1899 and may be the largest since 1600.
	www.rense.com /general61/qqu.htm (478 words)

	Modern Times
		Five days after the premiere of Modern Times, Chaplin—with his protege Goddard and her mother—sailed for Honolulu and a well-deserved vacation on the SS Coolidge, aboard which he met poet-painter-filmmaker Jean Cocteau.
		He handled many of the sound effects for Modern Times personally; the stomach-rumbling sounds made by the hungry job-seeker in the film were created by Chaplin blowing bubbles in a pail of water.
		Although he retained much of his silent style—and all of his talent—when he created his later films, the master of mime was finally forced to adapt to modern times.
	course1.winona.edu /pjohnson/h140/modern.htm (2368 words)

	Modern times quotes & quotations
		In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts.
		In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name _Nemeseia_, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters.
		As nearly every reasonless and apparently meaningless custom, rite or observance of modern times had origin in some remote utility, it is pleasing to note an example of ancient nonsense evolving in the process of ages into something really useful.
	en.thinkexist.com /quotes/with/keyword/modern_times (996 words)

	Read This: Algebra in Ancient and Modern Times
		At times, it reads a bit like several student projects edited together to form a single chapter, but for the most part, it is concise and accurate, with a great variety of exercises every few pages.
		The author gives a complete and concise treatment of the controversies surrounding the solution of the cubic equation, and also shows how it was the solution to the cubic equation, not the solution of the quadratic equation, that led to serious study of complex numbers.
		I would particularly recommend Algebra in Ancient and Modern Times to strong high school students, to high school algebra teachers, to people who want a history of mathematics with a lot of mathematics in the history, and to anyone who needs to know how to find an analytic solution to a nasty fourth degree polynomial.
	www.maa.org /reviews/aamt.html (643 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Modern Times at Epinions.com
		"Modern Times" is Charlie Chaplin's last silent film.
		There are also many clever gags, and the Tramp character is, as always, both funny and affecting, often at the same time.
		"Modern Times" begins with the Tramp working in a factory.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-7978-7C842FC-37E9B0EA-prod1 (312 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition) (1936) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Modern Times is the last silent film that Charles Chaplin created in a time when talking was common on the silver screen.
		At the same time, the film displays gentle love and care that provides a base for hope and dreams for those who are struggling for a happier and better life.
		"Modern Times" is a timeless, laugh-out-loud, very intelligent and insightful little picture about modern life, the plight of the assembly line worker and the "pick them up by their bootstraps" mentality that has been attributed to the growth--and sometimes downfall--of modern day American society.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000096IBI?v=glance (2075 words)

	Belmont Club
		Modern word processing processing programs, like Microsoft Word, contain information in the font definition which, for example, tuck a small "i" under the overhang of a capital "T".
		The armored knight, considered at one time to be the leviathan of the battlefield, could now be felled at ranges up to 200 yards by a single arrow.
		Times and Times New Roman are too thick in the ascenders (risers, and descenders, too).
	belmontclub.blogspot.com /2004/09/modern-times-with-new-york-times.html (11300 words)

	Inspirational and Motivational Reading for Modern Times
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	www.galaxymall.com /mind/motivation (210 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Charles Chaplin - 1936 - Modern Times Movies Review
		Modern Times is his greatest achievement, though some may argue that City Lights would occupy that spot.
		Despite getting by most audiences opposed to his left wing politics, Modern Times is one of the main reasons that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI put Chaplin under surveillance and eventually conspired to oust him from the United States.
		Another way to look at Modern Times is in context with the conflict that Chaplin was having with the changing technology of film.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10000968 (817 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For Paul Johnson, the modern era begins with one of the second types of revolutions, in 1919, when English astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington translated observations from a solar eclipse into proof of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which turned Newtonian physics on its head.
		The modern world began on 29 May 1919 when photographs of a solar eclipse, taken on the island of Principe off West Africa and at Sobral Brazil, confirmed the truth of a new theory of the universe.
		MODERN TIMES is a sweeping history of the 20th century that should be read by students everywhere.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060922834?v=glance (2505 words)

	Modern Times
		Sometimes “balance” means that a movie is able to see two sides of a polemical issue, or present all of its characters with equal degrees of detail, or preserve a steady pace and equanimity even as a plot accelerates or a situation worsens.
		Modern Times, one of the very first and most deserving inductees into the National Film Registry, belongs in lots of pantheons.
		You can’t separate what’s crazy about Modern Times from what is well-reasoned, what’s soft-hearted from what is sad and scared, what is improvised from what is meticulously planned, what is big from what is small.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /modtimes.html (1505 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times [1936] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Modern Times marks the last proper appearance of Charles Chaplin's iconic Little Tramp, and finds our hero struggling to make ends meet in the Depression of the 1930s.
		Modern Times' most famous sequences portray the dehumanisation of factory labour to fine comic effect, balancing satire with slapstick to perfection in several superbly executed set-pieces.
		On the DVD: Modern Times is offered in the original 4:3 fl and white with good mono sound evidencing just a little distortion and a very clean, clear picture with minimal grain to give away its age.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AISJQ (764 words)

	MODERN - Definition
		[adj] ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?"
		Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.
		A person of modern times; -- opposed to {ancient}.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/modern (221 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At the same time, MODERN TIMES stands as one of Chaplin's most perfectly balanced mixtures of humor and pathos.
		The gags are impeccably timed and beautifully edited, and Chaplin's scenes with Paulette Goddard, in particular, glow with warmth.
		Chaplin would continue to delight audiences with his later movies, but all of them featured recorded dialogue--after this one, the master of mime was forced to adapt to modern times.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=7386 (262 words)

	Title: "Modern Times" - Topics: Cinema; U.S./1929 - 1941; Chaplin; Charlie Chaplin; Great Depression; Little ...
		"Modern Times" is acknowledged to be the last of the great silent movies.
		It is also an excellent introduction to silent films, to Charlie Chaplin (one of the greatest actor/directors of all time), and to his classic "Little Tramp" character.
		The movie will also introduce children to the assembly line, the poverty of the Great Depression, the labor unrest that occurred during the Great Depression, and the redbaiting that was used to suppress labor unions.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/modern-times.html (621 words)

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		Mr Salim Al- Hoss is no stranger to politics, as this is the fifth time he holds the position of Prime Minister.
		Several million dollars have been spent in promoting and modernizing the private sector in order to make it able to play a key role in the economy of the country.
		The atmosphere of peace and stability in the county encouraged several foreign and local investors, who are currently contributing a great deal in promoting the Lebanese economy.
	www.arab.net /lebanon/ln_moderntimes.htm (890 words)

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