Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although they are a less-than-adequate substitute for an actual party scene, these little extravaganzas are great when you just take them for what they are--a chance to get mad silly with your friends and classmates and look great while doing...
...Europe, Fascism in Italy, Stalinism in the Soviet Union-had wiped entire countries off the map of modernist culture. Though modernism had long flirted with the idea of historical amnesia, treating the past as though it were a drag on invention, it was not equipped to deal with the actual destruction of that past by war and ideology. Whole tracts of culture-German Romanticism; classical sculpture, with its image of the ideal, prosperous body-had been laid waste, fatally contaminated, by the use the Nazis had made of them, just as the Realist option had been wrecked by official Stalinist...
...Court let stand without comment a 1990 law that requires pornographic filmmakers and photographers to provide proof that their subjects are at least 18 years old. The law, part of the Child Protection Restoration and Penalties Enhancement Act, requires producers of material with "actual sexually explicit conduct" to keep and make available records of the ages of anyone shown. The American Library Association and others had challenged the law, saying it violated free speech rights by requiring such records even for subjects who were obviously much older than...
Even in the most democratic of conditions, politicians have immense influence, perhaps more than they themselves realize. This influence does not lie in their actual mandates, which in any case are considerably limited. It lies in something else: in the spontaneous impact their charisma has on the public...
...failure to follow through when he's made major proposals. He's made a big speech, and there's no follow-through in sight." Since Clinton can't veto the GOP budget agreement, Carney adds, the battle now moves to the congressional appropriations committees that craft the actual spending bills...