Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems Pellegrini and RUS must constantly fight is a "feminist-lesbian" stereotype, Pellegrini says. RUS is open to all woman in the Harvard community, but only the more liberal groups tend to associate with it. This places the union in a classic Catch-22 situation which Pellegrini has had difficulty overcoming...
...classic showdown...
...Morgan Guaranty Trust: "Latin American countries have relied far too much on government enterprises, which are usually inefficient, bureaucratic behemoths." The debtors must also take measures to slow down their capital flight so that money from the new loans does not simply go into foreign bank accounts. The classic example is Mexico, which lost at least $33 billion between 1977 and 1984 as panicky citizens poured money into U.S. real estate and other havens...
...blisters, the ghost of this strange, contradictory figure hovers in the wings. The demons he unleashed from his bedroom still wander through films and fiction today. As a young man, Strindberg wrote his manifesto: "No spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits." Here stands the classic confession of the artist as terrorist--not a nice man, but very much our contemporary...
Miyake approaches even the humblest bolt of cloth with the sophistication that comes from long practical experience, as well as from a grounding in the inward splendors of the classic Japanese tea ceremony. Two central concepts of tea culture are sabi and wabi. Sabi conveys the dull sheen of posterity, the finish, mystery and allure acquired by an object that has been well worn. Wabi suggests the use of a humble material for a higher purpose. Both qualities abound in Miyake's best clothes: his coats and dresses cut from one piece of cloth, a man's sweater that looks...