Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There were 113 items listed (how could 113 people care about snails?) so I chose to view articles on African snails...
...choice of articles about African snails was displayed. I chose the one pertaining to the smuggling of African snails into the U.S.--a bigger problem than you may think...
...representative on the Security Council, makes it clear that it won't be Clinton. "Look," she said after she cast the lone vote against Boutros-Ghali in the 15-member council last week, "we are opposed to Boutros-Ghali. And we have the veto here." As his chief African backers decide hanging on to a second term for their continent is more important than retaining Boutros-Ghali, he has little time left to withdraw with some dignity intact...
...Picasso, characteristically, was not content simply to do something that others had done before him. ("You've got to make what doesn't exist," he once said; "what has never been made before. That's painting.") Picasso's original contribution stemmed from his first viewing, earlier in 1907, of African masks and fetishes at a Paris museum. He imposed such masks on the face of two of his demoiselles, thereby rendering these commercial temptresses both alluring and monstrous. Richardson writes, "Familiarity has inured us to the horror that these dog-faced demoiselles caused when they were first unveiled, almost...
...your article "Were Trade Missions for Sale?" [NATION, Nov. 11], you stated that I suggested that I be added to a mission headed for South Africa in 1993 because I had contributed $2,000 to the election campaigns of President Clinton and South African President Nelson Mandela. I have never requested to be included on a Commerce Department trade mission, and I have not made such political contributions. I am president of a not-for-profit relief and development organization operating in various countries throughout the African continent. My agency does not engage in business of the type promoted...