Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fragmentation already threatens to destroy the world's most influential democracy and we cannot afford to turn our backs on the things that we have in common as residents and citizens of the United States of America...
...Paddy, a destruction of the unions by mob cohorts produces a more deadly dilemma: if he cooperates with the Italians and agrees to bully union leaders into resigning, he will destroy his brother's chances, his family's livelihood and forge an alliance with the Mafia that is potentially lethal. If he refuses, he will be eradicated by the violence that has made him rich. Both brothers are faced with impossible choices and impossible decisions that draw them deeper into the world of the New York underground than a sandhog ever ventured...
...along to assuage our own guilt, by paying lip service to our ideals in order to make ourselves feel better. But neither of these doctrines move to solve the problems of race that we have in this country. The predominant conservative doctrine talks much of what it wants to destroy but very little about what it wants to do. The liberal doctrine expresses some powerful ideas but ultimately it cultivates a pernicious paternalism and absolves its believers of personal responsibility. These doctrines are not mutually exclusive; both contain elements of truth...
...Civil War were portrayed as wine-swilling fat cats not dissimilar in manner to the depictions of their red-white-and-blue-hatted American counterparts on the congruent poster. Another work in the room focuses on conspiritorial links within the League of Nations between the capitalist nations to destroy the Soviet "threat." Yet a more extreme print reworks a Russian fairy tale about evil people (fat capitalists) attempting to uproot a turnip (a national symbol), whereupon the turnip rises to the occassion and blows the bastards out of the country...
...historical record would simply destroy the beautiful creation of the Soviet artists, not simply in their socialistic slogans but in their carefully cut woodblock prints of Lenin giving voice to the masses through radio, and of Russian people frolicking in the bounty of "freedom" and plenty. So let us leave it at that, the wonderfully appetitive imagery to be gained from a visit to the museum. Go enjoy the workers' paradise...