Word: accords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American white wine not provided such a clear market alternative to imports, the stalemate might have disintegrated into a costly battle of tariffs. Though French President Francois Mitterrand, who must still face his nation's angry farmers, may balk at the agreement, U.S. President George Bush hailed the accord as a "breakthrough" that would bring a "comprehensive, global and balanced agreement" on trade that much closer for the 108 nations participating in GATT's Geneva negotiations. The Americans have cause to celebrate, perhaps with a glass of California Chardonnay...
...Japanese chipmakers. The Japanese were selling 256-kilobit memory chips at $2 each, for example, even though they cost an estimated $3 or more to produce. The result was the first U.S.-Japan semiconductor trade agreement, which set up a system of floor prices on Japanese chips. A second accord was signed last year, calling for American and other non-Japanese chipmakers to gain at least 20% of Japan's market...
...makes its way into the plot of "Dracula," as the ardent vampire pursues Mina through the London cinematograph exhibition. The characters watch images on a screen as we watch them. The film constantly dances around the subject of images--projections on movie screens, shadows which act on their own accord, and a mirror, which Dracula smashes because it doesn't reflect him. There's a certain ironic justice in the fact that Dracula, this character who has no reflected image, is one of the most persistent images in film...
...have said many times since 1967, that the clash between Israel and Palestine is a tragic one because it is a clash between right and right," he said. He argued that peace with Palestine is a critical first step for Israel in the path towards accord with all Arab countries...
This show provides plenty of evidence of Basquiat's graphic industry, but not much that he ever tried to deal with the real world through drawing. He had no idea how to discipline himself into making a creative accord between its forms and the marks on paper or canvas. He just scribbled and jotted, picking up stylistic pointers from older artists he admired, among them Cy Twombly and Jean Dubuffet. He could only rehearse his own stereotypes, his pictorial nouns for "head" or "body," over and over again...