1980
After Meryl Streep’s stunning
performance in Kramer vs. Kramer,
Newsweek predicted she “may become
the strongest performer of her generation”
and “rival the power of such male stars as
[Dustin] Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Robert
De Niro and Al Pacino.” Indeed, Streep
has been nominated for 21 Academy
Awards—more than any other actor.
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“At almost any hour that urban Americans are on the move, there is
an anthem of gnashing teeth,” Newsweek reported on the growing
“agony of getting anywhere” for city dwellers. In “no other society has man
deployed so many wheels: they enable him to live in one place, work in another,
and vacation anywhere he chooses.” On the road, “automobiles choke the
expressways.” Ever-more beleaguered today by increased congestion and
pollution, a new age of smart technology aims to alleviate these historic
challenges—such as ride-sharing services and autonomous vehicles.
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2000
After “all the worries about computer
glitches and the threat of violence, it
turned out to be a wonderful night,”
Newsweek wrote of the new millennium.
The worry was that the year 2000 could
screw with computers, bringing massive
malfunctions. But with “fanfare and
ɿreworks,” < 2. turned out “<2A2kay.”