Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also, from the outset, much possessed by death. Warhol's multiple- image disasters of the early '60s based on news photos of fatal car wrecks are suffused with dread and compassion beneath their icily casual surface. Such works looked amazingly raw, frank and direct when they were made. More than 20 years later, they still...
...although customers seem to believe that I'm an omniscient being who can anticipate and direct their every want ("I want...a sundae." What kind? "Ahh...hot fudge." Pause. Any ice cream with that? "Oh...What's good?) they will simultaneously assume that I'm a deaf and dumb sub-human creature...
...dropped architecture, opting instead for the life of an inventor. "Inventing allows you to more perfectly solve problems, without compromising at all," he says. "Also, it provides direct contact with basic physical principles...
Indeed, its magnitude can hardly be overstated. Brazil is supposed to pay about $800 million in interest every month on its staggering $108 billion foreign debt. If the suspension of those payments goes on for long, it would be a direct hit on the earnings of dozens of major banks in the U.S. and Western Europe. It could set a perilous precedent for other major Latin American debtors, including Mexico ($105 billion owed) and Argentina ($52.3 billion). But as disturbing as Sarney's decision was, Brazil's deepening economic woes and dwindling currency reserves made it almost inevitable...
...which hoped to pull off a victory before the inauguration of Ronald Reagan. That attempt failed, but not for lack of trying. The Sandinistas have been more restrained in their support of the Salvadoran guerrillas during the Reagan Administration, not because of a change of heart but as a direct result of the military pressure that the U.S. has brought to bear during that time. Pressure in the form of the contras...