Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grooms' exuberance there is no doubt. Not for nothing does he favor the rowdy epithet ruckus in collectively naming his pieces: Ruckus Manhattan, Ruckus Rodeo. His tableaux fairly burst with riotous energy. In them, Jean Dubuffet's idea of making an art raw enough to stand up to the chaos of the street comes home to roost. Every Grooms surface pullulates with caricatural figures, each impacted with manic cartoony verve, rendered as layered plywood cutouts, as silhouettes, as stuffed dolls, as shadows. The detail is never hard to read, and one does not get lost in it, because Grooms sticks...
...influential abroad. "I've lived with Asian influence all my life," says Eugene Kupper, an architect and UCLA professor, but "today Japan is in the forefront. It's the most exciting it has ever been." While tradition clearly informs some of the best new Japanese design, the current creative burst is not primarily backward looking. Indeed, Japanese design seems singularly, giddily unfettered. Not only are architects and art directors in their 40s and 50s free from the obligation to pay homage to traditional forms, they have also escaped for the first time in this century from the overwhelming gravitational pull...
...summit between rival heads of state. On one side stood Roh Tae Woo, head of South Korea's ruling Democratic Justice Party, with a smile seemingly frozen on his face. Beaming just as hard and warmly clasping Roh's hand was Opposition Leader Kim Young Sam. After an extended burst of camera clicking, the longtime antagonists sat down in the National Assembly's VIP restaurant to discuss the business at hand: a proposed amendment to the country's constitution. When they rose from their first substantial meeting nearly three hours later, the face of South Korean politics had turned firmly...
India's press is among the freest in the world, but it did not seem that way last week. In the New Delhi editorial office of the Indian Express, the country's largest English-language daily, tax agents backed by police burst in and seized documents. The purported aim of their search: evidence of customs- duties violations...
...have long to savor the accolade. Less than 20 minutes later, as an aide leaned past the seated President, a door burst open and a shot was fired at Jayewardene. The assistant caught the bullet in his back and collapsed, critically wounded. Then two grenades exploded, one bouncing on the table in front of the President before it landed twelve feet away. The hail of shrapnel sent officials scurrying for cover. "There was pandemonium," said Cabinet Minister Abdul Majeed. "The room was filled with smoke, and members were shouting all sorts of things...