Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...setting beguiling-and the opera incomprehensible. So did many Chinese in the audience. Therein lay the seeds of a revolution: the libretto was flashed on a screen at the side of the stage for the benefit of those in the audience who might not grasp every nuance of archaic Mandarin. Sills resolved to take a cue from what she witnessed. The idea was reinforced when the Canadian Opera in Toronto pioneered the use of English captions in its productions of Richard Strauss's Elektra and Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea...
Actually, Nagy not only took a whale-watching cruise off Cape Cod, he also completed a book of literary criticism on the work of Pindar, an archaic Greek lyric poet...
...even a degree of mystery. One realizes where a New York graffiti artist like the fulsomely promoted Keith Haring, 25-the Peter Max of the subways-filched his ideas, a decade later. Penck's paintings consist of stick figures and linear signs, enacting parodies of myth, ritual and archaic language. They draw on a wide range of sources, from algebra to Dipylon vases, from set theory and scribbles on the Berlin Wall to American Indian petroglyphs. Like a lot of earlier modernist art, they quote the "primitive" forms out of all cultural context, stubbornly, like someone repeating a misunderstood...
...does not look like Labor will moderate itself in the future. Party leaders Michael Foot and Denis Healey have stepped aside, making room for a new generation of leaders. But the party's archaic and ingrained internal structure rules out any real moderation. Two-fifths of the votes come from the unions which have repeatedly shown themselves to be unrealistic and irrational--some say they seek the destruction of the current political system. The fiery Neil Kinnock, whose name is being tossed about as a possible successor to Foot, has shown himself to be likeable and coherent but somewhat radical...
Until recently, Belaúnde believed that he could afford to ignore the Senderistas, a small band of no more than 2,000 students and Indian peasants who claim a tenuous adherence to Maoism while following archaic tribal customs of the Incas. Since last December, however, the well-trained insurgents have become increasingly violent. They have killed nine policemen, seemingly at random, and terrorized mountain villages by executing their leaders...