Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Central American nation, disheartening news came of a daring guerrilla offensive. On two year-end raids, leftist insurgents not only captured and held El Salvador's fourth-largest military base for some eight hours but blew up the Cuscatlan suspension bridge, a span that had come to symbolize 20th century progress for Salvadorans...
ALEX, THE LIFE OF A CHILD by Frank Deford Viking; 196 pages; $13.95 Many of us have convinced ourselves that children don't die anymore, not in the latter half of the 20th century, not in the United States of America, and certainly not in the suburbs." But of course they do, as Journalist and Novelist Frank Deford piercingly recounts in this spare and vivid eulogy to his daughter Alexandra, "Alex," who died in 1980 of cystic fibrosis...
...program's popularity has spawned a slew of Who conventions. A two-day gathering held at Longleat, the Marquess of Bath's stately home in Wiltshire, drew 60,000 fans last Easter. A 20th-anniversary celebration of the series at Chicago's Hyatt Regency O'Hare in November attracted more than 7,000 aficionados. "Chicago has suddenly become the hotbed for Doctor Who, " says Rose Arias, 22, president of the Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA), a fan club for the program...
...More than any other American artist of the 20th century," writes its director, Tom Armstrong, in the catalogue, "Willem de Kooning has added to the vocabulary of painting, altered the perception of what painting represents." Jorn Merkert's catalogue essay asserts that de Kooning "played perhaps the decisive role" in the development of abstract expressionism (notwithstanding de Kooning's own generous tribute to Pollock as the one who "broke the ice"). The purpose of canonization is well in hand; once again-though one must except Curator Paul Cummings' measured and enlightening essay on de Kooning...
...collection also includes two novellas that rank as classics, not only in Colette's canon, but in all of 20th century French literature. The Tender Shoot is the story of a singularly nasty middle-aged roue's pursuit of a 15-year-old peasant girl. Upon this squalid tale, Colette lavished her most lyrical language and poetic fancies, heightening the sense of evil...