Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest display in the exhibition is the collection of block puzzles, which are far from ordinary barrel puzzles...
Some of these block puzzles seem to be works of art as well as a challenge, made of cherry and rosewood, or combinations of fine woods varnished to a high lustre, so that they are almost too pretty to take apart...
...kind is the "shifting block" puzzle. One puzzle in the exhibition required the user to move a "car" through "traffic" or even use four "walls" to surround a "dinosaur...
...process is heading--just as Huntington advised. Even the two-steps-forward, one-back sugestion has been followed: influx control laws were declared abolished, but Blacks' rights to move freely around the country are still controlled by legal fictions, including "citizenship" in bantustans and housing codes which block Blacks from living in "white" cities. Forced removals have broken up Black communities offering resistance to government policies--a perfect example of preventing opposition from mobilizing. Similarly, mass detentions, a constant troop presence on township streets, and a certain degree of dishonesty in the government's rhetoric--all these might be seen...
...formed throughracially-divided voters' rolls, with 10representatives for each racial or language groupand a final category for people choosing to vote a"nonracial" roll. Each separate bloc of Afrikaans,English, Zulu, Asian and 'non-racial'representatives would have veto power overimportant government decisions--which means anysingle group could block attempts to fundamentallyalter apartheid...