Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edifice Complex...
...Soviet and U.S. pavilions at the Brussels Fair [April 28]: Has Mother Russia given this country an edifice complex...
Chances are that Fanfani is indeed sweating. Under Italy's new electoral law-a complex melange of straight and proportional representation-the Communists and Christian Democrats will have to increase their ballot by between 500,000 and 1,000,000 votes in order not to lose parliamentary seats. By contrast, an increase of only 400,000 votes-half what they polled in the last election-could double the number of Liberal seats in the Chamber of Deputies...
...that seemed to pin them in the air as if frozen by a strobe light, whipped their bodies into angles few Western dancers would even attempt. In Polyanka (The Meadow), files of dancers snaked across the stage in a sinuous blur of speed, hurled past one another in a complex tracery. Partisans had the black-cloaked dancers gliding in roller-smooth imitation of horsemen on patrol; Soccer sent them cartwheeling in comic, splay-fingered lunges for an imaginary ball...
From Every Direction. What caused that slump? There is no one cause. A complex set of factors bore in on the industry-and hit it all at once...