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To get along in life, everybody needs pretty much the same thing — but not exactly the same thing.
That's the problem given historical shape by "Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939," the vast, thought-provoking show opening Saturday at the Corcoran. It touches on virtually every art form, from drawing and painting to cinema and dance. But because the show originated at the Victoria and Albert Museum, one of the world's great repositories of design and decorative arts, the more populist media — architecture, design, graphic art — resonate loudest.