modern
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I had been searching for a Midcentury Modern table for my new apartment, 33 floors above downtown L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Midway through “Marcel Duchamp”—the Museum of Modern Art’s sweeping, chronological survey of the artist it calls “one of the most important figures in modern culture”—you first encounter what Duchamp labelled as his “Readymades.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
Modern Warfare has previously courted controversy through storylines inspired by real-world events and conflicts.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
“A Roth IRA can be a powerful long-term tool for children because it gives you decades of tax-free potential income,” said said Sherron Permashwar, CPA and wealth strategist for the Modern Savvy CPA.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
Modern quantum mechanics combines both ideas, and it is customary today to think of light as behaving in some circumstances as a beam of particles and in others as a wave.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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