Word: antonic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...result, many migrants who wish only to work and improve their life claim falsely to be refugees and ask for political asylum. Last year 700,000 of them applied to West European countries for asylum -- 438,000 in Germany alone. "I risked my life to get here," says Anton Lupu, a 33-year-old Romanian painter who made it across the border from Poland and has applied for asylum in Eisenhuttenstadt, Germany. "We didn't come to steal, only to work respectably. The difference between Germany and Romania is the difference between heaven and earth...
...chilly creator brought some real compassion to these sealed-off lives, we might take them more readily to heart. If they suggested some generalized insights about lower-middle-class life, we might more readily forgive their dreary excesses. And if wishing could make it so, Neil Simon would be Anton Chekov's authentic, instead of his merely aspiring, heir. Which would make this a much better world to live...
...Sharon Stone in duplicate on the high bar -- perform their mirror-image calisthenics in a space as intimate as the womb. The brothers Marco and Paulo Lorador bend their Apollonian physiques to some wondrous heavy lifting. And the Tchelnokovs (Nikolai, his wife Galina Karableva and their impossibly lithe son Anton, 7) describe patterns of living sculpture that are less physical than mystical. In the harmonious flow of their fearless feats, these performers might be parents and siblings from another, ideal world, where beauty is based on majestic trust...
...AUTHOR: ANTON CHEKHOV...
...forth, there is no way of judging their actual political effect, if any. What really won a place in the Bolshevik propaganda effort was photography and the new art of photocollage, brilliantly deployed -- in combination with sharp, eye-rattling typographic forms -- in book jackets, handbills and movie posters. Anton Lavinsky's 1926 poster for Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, which grabs the eye with the staring authority of those two black cannon muzzles framing the whispering, mutinous sailor, is a classic of the genre...