Word: claddings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...yellow-clad demonstrators call themselves the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). But they represent neither the majority of Thai people nor universal democratic values. Their mission is to erase from government any influence of billionaire populist Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed as Prime Minister in a 2006 army coup. Although the telecom tycoon is beloved by many poor Thais who once gave him a record electoral mandate, the urban middle class, which forms the bedrock of the PAD, accuses Thaksin of being a power-hungry strongman. In October, the former P.M. was sentenced in absentia to two years' imprisonment...
...redeeming quality: they're short. After the al-Hais brothers have spoken, all that's required of the other speakers is to agree as quickly as possible. Then it's back to the singing and dancing, and now some of the sheiks are coaxed to join in. A poet, clad incongruously in leather jacket and trousers, loudly declaims the virtues of patriotism and warns against those who would seek to hurt Iraq. Again, there are knowing smirks all around: he's talking, of course, about...
...time each cycle, play over “I’m Through With Love,” a song from Monroe’s film “Some Like It Hot.” Many of Conner’s other films feature nude or scantily clad women, usually juxtaposed along footage concerned with violence, disaster or population explosion. The artist seems in search of a sort of mimesis of consciousness for the modern man—a clustered, disorienting rush of disconnected, yet inexplicably related dialogues on history, culture and gender as they have traveled through time...
...Yard in front of the John Harvard statue, students bobbed to the music in parkas and sipped apple cider and hot chocolate. Those who braved the chill waved glow sticks and foam fingers as CEB members threw balloons into the crowd. Several police officers stood on stage, as Gillis, clad in a crimson CEB sweatshirt, sampled from songs that varied from Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” to UGK’s “International Player’s Anthem (I Choose You).” But after crowdgoers caused part...
...Living with artistic and social restraint is thus the thematic connection between much of the work. Javad Montazeri contributes a touching photo essay of women swimming, fully clad, and sadly ponders the fact that when his daughter is 9 she too will be forced to swim in the same restrictive garments. Rapper Mehrak Golestani, a.k.a. Reveal, writes about secret house parties where DJs silence the decks at 5 a.m. so that the first call to prayer can be heard. Khosrow Hassanzadeh satirizes official portraits of "martyrs" in the war with Iraq by painting his friends in the same style...