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Mr. Burani added that he had recently examined some of Ms. Schön's 30-year-old designs, "and they were still contemporary".

A trip to Delphy from Athens; visit to a British officers' mess of which the author says: "These Englishmen had made for themselves a snug & selfsufficient little world...that seemed more obviously anachronistic than the life of the olive-growing goat-herding Greeks who were still contemporary with Homer".

Unlike the field holler or rural blues in the United States, rumba in Cuba is still contemporary music.

PAGE 28 Batteries Not Included 44 T Magazine Arty Like It's 1973 An art collector's radical reworking of a Manhattan town house is still contemporary after all these years.

After at least a half dozen or more readings, its clear-eyed view of life is still contemporary.

And well past the second quarter of the 20th century these paintings were still challenging contemporary artists.

When Rome was waxing there were still other sizable contemporary empires, including China's Han dynasty, the Sasanid Empire and the Parthian Empire.

He made sergeant while his contemporaries were still at the bottom of the ranks.

Toscanini, Furtwängler, Walter, Beecham had all gone, but some of their younger contemporaries were still highly visible, if somewhat fragile.

Nevertheless, portraits of contemporaries were still exceptional, and many early portraits are semi-idealized studies of the great philosophers, statesmen, or poets of the Classical period.

Bear was climbing Mount Everest when many of his contemporaries were still learning how to roll a joint and unfasten a bra.