Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They came up with an amalgam of pointillism, cubism and photography. Picasso and Braque had built cubism on the scrutiny of a single object from multiple viewpoints: the table stood still, the eye moved. In futurism, the eye is fixed and the object moves, but it is still the basic vocabulary of cubism -- fragmented and overlapping planes -- that tells us so. Carra, Boccioni and, above all, Balla prized the photographs of sequential movement taken by Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Jules Marey. Some of Balla's own paintings, like the famous Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912, are virtually...
...hatred toward any people, especially not toward the American people. The U.S. is no stranger to us. We still have full diplomatic relations, as well as trade relations. But from the onset of our revolutionary process, our relations have not been as they should be. Ethiopians had the basic right to fight oppression, to overthrow the monarchy. The fact that we exercised this right should not have irritated Washington. But we were denied aid that had been given previously. Just as we accept the social and political order in the U.S., the U.S. should accept the social and political choice...
...eyes of most blacks, the statutory council is flawed because it is purely advisory and blacks played no role in its formulation. "The government's basic mistake," says a Western diplomat, "is that it thinks it can, and must, remain in control of the process of change. It is trying to reform by directive, and blacks will not accept that." Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, former leader of the white opposition Progressive Federal Party, says that the government is inviting blacks to negotiate about apartheid, while the blacks are saying that if apartheid is abolished first, then they will negotiate about...
Even some of Reagan's supporters feel he made a basic political misjudgment by jumping into the debate over sanctions with nothing new to offer at a time when something more was needed. He seemed also to misread the depth of sentiment on the issue. While just about everyone is repelled by the oppression in South Africa and thinks something should be done about it, there is no clear consensus on what. Reagan, by heightening the visibility of the subject without offering a solution, succeeded only in exposing his own policies to closer inspection and greater criticism...
...been at its Square location since Christmas Eve of 1979. It served basic diner food to tourists, students, and working people, specializing in hearty, greasy breakfast fare...