Word: dada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these men who formed the nucleus of the short-lived Dada movement, the existing surface of art - its forms and language - was a repressive crust. Freedom lay in the unprecedented. For Ernst it included the discovery in 1919 of an old catalogue, full of engravings of all sorts of objects. That catalogue, cut up by its discoverer to make new configurations of its images, was a mother lode of modern art, and the collages Ernst extracted from it, like The Horse, He's Sick (1920), have never been equaled in their ironic intensity, formal rigor and erotic strangeness...
Died. Hans Richter, 87, painter, film maker and one of the originators of the Dada movement in art; in Locarno, Switzerland. While many of Richter's revolutionary friends, such as Painters Max Ernst and Marcel Du-champ and Sculptor Hans Arp settled into more traditional art forms, Richter gave up his easel for Dadaist and Surrealist film making. He made his first film, Rhythm 21, in 1921 and his best, Dreams That Money Can Buy, in 1947. In 1941 Richter fled Nazi Germany and came to New York, where he taught cinema for many years. In 1965 he published...
...tactics had made face-saving compromise impossible. One European ambassador reported that three African delegates claimed they could not even abstain in the vote for fear of appearing to knuckle under to an American ambassador who had called the Organization of African Unity's chairman, President Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, a "racist murderer." Moynihan feels that without a strong stand the vote might have been worse. Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog agrees...
Tippling in the ranks of his army is giving Uganda President Idi Amin Dada a headache. "Soldiers who drink their heads off" and "fatten beyond efficiency" should be tossed out of the service, Big Daddy declared at a parade. The 300-lb. field marshal then adjourned to the officers' mess, where he quaffed his favorite pick-me-up - a cold Coke...
Public Support. In Moynihan's case, the problem was his aggressive defense of U.S. democratic principles against a hostile Third World majority at the U.N. Since becoming ambassador in June, he offended African diplomats by correctly describing Ugandan President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada as a "racist murderer" and indirectly criticizing other African nations because Amin is head of the Organization of African Unity. More recently, Moynihan antagonized Third World ambassadors with threats of retribution for supporting the U.N. General Assembly's resolution equating Zionism with racism...