Word: 1970s
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...host gallery must organize free public screenings. Several Harvard professors and students, as well as visitors from MIT and the New York-based magazine Bidoun have or will organize screenings.Harvard’s screening series began on March 14, with an examination of Polish videos from the 1970s and 1990s curated by History of Art and Architecture professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, who participated in Poland’s underground art scene in the 1980s before moving to the United States. When Lajer-Burcharth was asked to curate her evening, she began by looking in the catalog, and was surprised...
...Lanka has been in ceaseless turmoil for more than three decades. During the 1970s and '80s, Marxist radicals in the south engaged in a fierce campaign against the government and were just as brutally put down. The conflict with the L.T.T.E. was sparked in 1975 when the Tigers assassinated the mayor of Jaffna, Sri Lanka's northernmost city, and intensified after the killing of 13 soldiers in 1983. Fighting has gone on for so long now that it has brutalized an entire society, creating a culture of violence that haunts the country whether there is fighting...
...Clarins. The founder of European cosmetics giant Clarins ditched the doctor dream to soothe Paris' war wounded as a masseur and found fans with his home-brewed treatment oils. Named for a character he portrayed in a high school play (he took the name as his own in the 1970s to celebrate his success), the family-owned company helped popularize therapeutic, plant-based skin-care products and grew to include salons around the world...
...researchers found that the Harvard journal was cited 4,410 times in federal courts during the 1970s, but only 1,956 in the 1990s, and 937 so far in this decade—despite an increase in the number of cases brought to courts...
...drift of rural families into cities in search of better jobs and improved living conditions is part of a global trend, but in Fiji the country's land-ownership policies have exacerbated the problem. Laws passed in the 1970s obliged non-indigenous farmers to take 30-year leases on the land they worked. As the leases expired, the Government encouraged indigenous Fijian landowners not to renew them, but instead to farm the land themselves. The non-indigenous farmers were given cash payouts to leave, but their workers received nothing...