Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minimalist self-conscious pseudo-drama at its most lean and mean, a love triangle chopped up, robbed of emotional content, shorn of traditional character relationships, and pasted together in reverse order. What remains (a lot) is 90 minutes of ersatz psychodrama that flip-flops the protagonists' emotions, the concept of the dramatic narrative, and traditional notions of romance, nostalgia, friendship and adultery...
...attorney general's office yesterday appealed the Garrity moratorium before a state Supreme Court judge, according to spokesman David A. Wood. Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti said in a statement, "The concept of a receivership for a state agency is repugnant to the doctrine of separation of power in the state constitution...
Spurning the middle class, however, could be a dangerous long-term strategy. Marilyn Barnewall, a Colorado consultant who helped develop the concept of private banking, advises clients to maintain good relations with their mass-market depositors. After all, today's struggling young professional intends to be tomorrow's high-net-worth individual...
Independence itself was won in part through the work of Motilal Nehru, an early and active backer of the concept. He begat Jawaharlal, who served for 17 years as the first Prime Minister of independent India. Jawaharlal begat Indira, who ruled for 16 of the 20 years of the post-Nehru era and, through her marriage, became the namesake, though not a relation, of the country's spiritual conscience, Mahatma Gandhi. Indira, known to many in the nation as Amma (mother), begat Rajiv and then Sanjay. When the prodigal younger son and heir apparent died in a plane crash...
What is needed, says Meier, is not an abruptly new architecture but a creative extension of the modern tradition, and he applies the prescription to his newest assignment as well. "I will have 18 months or so to work out my design concept for the Getty complex," he says, "but I already know that it will not be a white, porcelain-clad structure like the High Museum or the museums I'm doing for Frankfurt and Des Moines. It would be out of place on that site. Besides, I felt ready to shift direction, to change my style...