Word: dada
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part, though, the campaign was a fairly shallow personality contest. It had a maddeningly evasive quality about it. It was as if television news, with its gift for dramatic fragments of reality, made Dada arrangements of each day's history. The rush of images seemed to give the entire political process a ruinously short attention span. As the English poet George Meredith once prayed, "More brain, O Lord, more brain...
...Cambodia, African-style." That is how some Westerners describe Uganda today, five years after the fall of Dictator Idi Amin Dada. They contend that the government of President Apollo Milton Obote, whom Amin deposed in 1971 and who returned to power in 1980, has caused the deaths of as many as 100,000 Ugandan civilians and brought another 150,000 to the brink of starvation in a ruthless campaign to wipe out guerrillas. "We had hoped that the country would continue to make progress away from the terrible Idi Amin years," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights...
...course it always got worse, the two-and-a-half-year-old toddler scurried into the kitchen, demanding her breakfast. Cereal wouldn't do; no, she only wanted waffles with peanut butter on top. The baby couldn't talk back: she didn't even know how to say dada. The two-year-old responded with no's, now's, and why not's and as usual she had forgotten to put on her underwear...
DIED. Jimmy Ernst, 63, noted painter of spiky, delicate abstractions and son of Surrealist Max Ernst; of a heart attack; in New York City. Born in Cologne, Germany, when his father was gaining fame as a founder of the Dada movement, Ernst grew up among artists and, at the outbreak of World War II, settled in the U.S. His technique linked color blocks with lines or grids but did not exclude specific subject matter. His final paintings, currently on view in New York City, ranged in inspiration from his mother's cell at Auschwitz, where she died...
...think of the work I do as a kind of opera," says the petite, fine-boned Anderson, 35, and in a sense it is. With its roots in movements as disparate as Dada and the '60s happenings, performance art may be described as the 20th century equivalent of 16th century Florentine opera, an attempt to fuse many diverse art forms into a new, coherent whole. In her loft in lower Manhattan, Anderson, the object of a cult following since the mid-'70s, has been working on United States for four years. O Superman, a song included...