Word: dictatorship
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...horror of the proletarian dictatorship, many single children seem to detest physical labor. When some 21,000 Beijing pupils were asked to write a short composition on the topic "What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?", only 5% indicated that they wanted to become workers. Few wanted to be farmers. Most wanted to become taxi drivers, hotel attendants or Premier, because those occupations are perceived to be easy and comfortable...
Stella had to kick free of the literal basis of color-field painting; the flat color on a flat plane, the "dictatorship of the medium," had killed off the project of making abstract forms that, by moving in deep pictorial space, reawakened one's sense of the body. His way of doing this, in paintings from the Indian Birds series like Ram gangra, 1978, was to get rid of the solid back plane and replace it with a mesh support, so that the shapes seemed to hang in the air. The relatively sedate movement of form in Stella's earlier...
American foreign policy created the contras, a ragtag bunch of political-outs who seem to have more support in Miami than in Managua. The Sandinistas led a successful and legitimate revolution against a heinous dictatorship. Their government is recognized as sovereign by the majority of people in that country as well as the majority of nations in the world. It should by recognized as an equal nation by our nation...
...outcome for the U.S. in Nicaragua would be that the contras would wither away as more and more rebels accepted a Sandinista amnesty, and that the Sandinistas would then repeal the few steps they have taken toward democracy. The U.S. would thus be left to deal with a Marxist dictatorship that had cemented itself in power. There is a real danger that by proposing military aid to the contras, which Congress is almost certain to refuse, and by holding out for pure democracy in Nicaragua, Reagan will isolate the U.S. from peace negotiations that are likely to go forward -- with...
...place. But it is hardly surprising, coming from a director known for political activism. Z, a controversial film about a political revolution in Greece, vaulted Costa-Gavras to fame in 1969. And Missing, the story of an American who "disappears" in the political turmoil of a Central American dictatorship, re-established the director as a major force in political filmmaking...