Word: belonged
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...could. You can reach out and argue about what things say in concert -- novels, propaganda, music, film, advertising, magazines, TV, as well as painting, sculpture and architecture. The disadvantage is that it tends to ignore the exceptions -- outstanding works of art that don't necessarily fit the period they belong to. It also fosters a mood of political overgeneralization, as though the history of images were nothing other than that of ideological agendas...
...could the E.C. enforce a peace, and what kind of peace did it want? With French support, German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher undertook to jump-start a rusting security mechanism, the Western European Union. Consisting of nine of the 12 E.C. members -- Denmark, Ireland and Greece do not belong -- the WEU was garaged soon after it was created 43 years ago, when U.S.-led NATO assumed its functions. But France sees it as a vehicle for an autonomous West European security role, and Genscher had hoped it would sponsor a peacekeeping force...
Needless to say, these people belong at home making afghans for their grandchildren and not out hiring hit-men to kill their son-in-laws or their daughters' lovers. Snuffing out an enemy should remain the domain of organized crime. It is no world for the average American to enter...
...victory of capitalism in Russia is the victory of youth. These young people who defeated a coup and who brought down the statues can risk forming the Russian stock exchange, or organizing an import-export deal for the destruction of the Communist bureaucracy because they don't belong to it. They can ask for free-floating currency because they don't have any life savings tied up in rubles...
Indeed, many longtime Cambridge observers say that one almost has to belong to one of these two groups to have any chance at winning in a municipal election...