Word: caucasus
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...exhibition features many large-scale dramatic paintings accomodated in galleries normally reserved for the museum's permanent collection. A highlight is Rubens's "Prometheus Bound" (1611-12), which shows Prometheus bound to Mount Caucasus as punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods. Prometheus's pain is tangible to the viewer. His muscular body writhes and twists as an eagle digs his claws into the man's foreshortened body. With a bold diagonal composition and bravado brushwork, Rubens conveys human agony in the dynamic, engaging style typical of the Baroque period...
There is a lesson for the U.S. too: no globocop, however powerful, can step in to wipe out the hatreds that have made Bosnia, Somalia, Liberia, Kashmir, the Caucasus run with blood. U.S. power can be brought to bear successfully in conflicts like the Gulf War that are not principally about hate but about aggression, power, territorial acquisition -- the old game of nation states. The U.S. can cajole and encourage accommodation in lots of political, diplomatic, even military ways, but it cannot fundamentally change the minds of people determined to make their hatred for each other the reason for living...
...Says Khachig Stambultsyan, a parliamentary Deputy: "The entire world is watching with its arms folded while we die of cold and hunger." Russia could probably provide more assistance, but President Yeltsin, for all his sympathy for Armenia, clearly is not about to get caught in a war in the Caucasus, especially at the risk of alienating his own country's Muslim minority...
...Social conflicts. They are the greatest danger now. There is conflict in Russia, in the Caucasus. I don't believe that these countries will be able to rebuild their economies themselves; their economies are ruined. I think some bad things may follow. If it were only Georgia, it would not be disastrous for the whole world. It is impossible to say how it will take place, because it will happen spontaneously, and it will not be a long process. It may start in one republic and immediately engulf the others...
...name: it's now the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. That last word will soon be plural, for both Czechs and Slovaks agreed on Saturday to create separate states by the end of September. In what used to be the U.S.S.R., old feuds flared anew in the Caucasus...