Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though harsh crackdowns had occurred under previous, less embracing "emergencies," the most recent raids were more extensive. The government's stated aim was to pack off criminals who have joined forces with political activists in the slums. But the actual purpose was to spread a climate of fear among slumdwellers, who provide the biggest manpower pool for antigovernment protests: about 70% of the men in slums like La Victoria are unemployed...
Contrary to extremist sentiment, most Sikhs realize the importance of their economic and cultural linkages with the rest of the nation. The most vocal and tenacious of Sikhs who are clamoring for separatism are actually those not in India at all; these are Sikh expatriates, living mainly in the U.S., Canada, and Britain, who are far removed from the crippling consequences of actual partition...
...animals are always presented in the full "otherness" of their animal nature. He kept to this even when painting that traditional focus of woozy emotion, the dog. Stubbs rendered the lean ferocity of the staghound, or the compact, questing efficiency of the foxhound, with perfect respect for their actual being as creatures in their own world. Even when he did pets-as in Fino and Tiny, circa 1791, which is dominated by a superbly rhythmical profile of the Prince of Wales' black-and-white spitz Fino-he set down their complicated markings and baroque puffs of newly washed hair...
...pedestal. The other players in the historical drama form a ring. Behind them are the rest of the patients, sitting on benches beneath X-shaped projections that could be gallows or crucifixes. Beyond the stage sits the audience, who must absorb Weiss's ideas and interpret them. But the actual audience is not that far removed from the madhouse. As the inmates bang at the bars confining them, they practically touch us. Their wretched plight is ours; we are all part of one big batty family...
...leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Casey, however, explained that the passage, along with one that advocated "shooting" informers, should be considered in context. "It is important to note," his letter read, "that these passages are in the context of occupying a community and dealing with a situation in which actual or potential resistance remains...