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The mystery also explores themes of city politics and racism in midcentury Southern California.

Barry Levinson Directing Adaptation of Pete Dexter's Train « FirstShowing.net 2008

Most significantly, however, he also invoked the recent example of the Holocaust, drawing on the medical metaphors so prevalent in midcentury analyses of anti-Semitism:

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

* Plan59. com, an online shop specializing in midcentury illos, has many wonderful vintage food ads.

Boing Boing 2006

Davis and Havighurst represented the left-wing position in midcentury psychometrics: for example, they treated IQ as being much more the product of learning and culture than inheritance.

The Great Sorting 1995

“Representative Henry Waxman of California has signed up 127 co-sponsors for a very tough bill he proposed last week that seeks to reduce United States greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by midcentury, which is close to what Mr. Gore wants.”

Al Gore on C-Span « Climate Audit 2007

We do not enjoy discussing the waning interest in such areas of collecting as Victorian furniture and glassware, and we are happy to get the opportunity to discuss a category of collecting that seems to be on the upswing - namely, midcentury modern.

The Seattle Times 2011

But MoMA would step in to safeguard it, preserving the work in a peculiar kind of midcentury time capsule that it is now set to crack open.

Splatter-Day Saints 2010

Contemporary touches, such as midcentury-modern furniture and pieces designed by Frank Gehry, now overlay the hotel's historical backdrop.

'Is This Where The Beatles Stayed?' 2008

If an architecture student at UCLA or Sci-Arc stepped before a thesis review panel at the end of the school year, announced that his primary goal was to invent "new places" and then unveiled that Bunker Hill fantasia, he'd be roundly called out for wallowing in a peculiar, druggy kind of midcentury nostalgia and sent back to the drawing board.

post-gazette.com - News 2010

Even the conservative United States Geological Survey predicts that oil production will peak by midcentury, meaning that future prices will make today's $3.70 gas look like chump change.

Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2008