The following weekend, at the Skirball, the festival closes with "La Edad de Oro," by Israel Galván, whose idiosyncratic modernizing puts him somewhere between disco and downtown experimentalism.
He recalls how, in 1978, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visited a Panasonic TV factory in Osaka and asked the company's founder, Konosuke Matsushita, to help him modernize China's electronics sector.
He recalls how, in 1978, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visited a Panasonic TV factory in Osaka and asked company founder Konosuke Matsushita to help him modernize China's electronics sector.
Zumwinkel has held the reins since 1990, when Helmut Kohl, then chancellor, plucked him out of the private sector and told him to modernize the Schneckenpost.
Helmut Kohl, then chancellor, plucked him out of the private sector in 1990 and told him to modernize the Schneckenpost.
A year later, Mr. Gluck refinanced his debt with $250 million in loans, allowing him to modernize the lobbies, install new elevators and glass doors, landscape the center courtyard and pocket tens of millions in profit.
She's pushing him to modernize, and he's pushing her to add a certain level of integrity to her life".
In 19th-century England, a minister's quest to modernize his village puts him at odds with people who believe that whoever lights the candle that an angel touched will receive a miracle on Christmas Eve.
The writers decided to modernize the character and depict him similar to Edgar Bergen's dummy Charlie McCarthy, but equally as rambunctious as the puppet in the book.
