Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...independent state. Then Georgia destroyed the Abkhaz government and subjugated us. Today, we want to make an agreement on an equal basis with Georgia and with Russia and create our own small republic. We want this to preserve our language, our culture, our history, so the people will not disappear...
...when you step back, and the details disappear, and the paintings become strange mosaics of jeweled color and gold. They take on an almost abstract quality. This is because Islamic art, unlike Western, was rendered in an intentional two-dimensionality. The works are fascinating because they are drawn from many viewpoints--there are no shadows to imply depth or perspective...
...even this analogy falls flat because it is simply impossible to imagine an America in a position of conflict and vulnerability analogous to Israel's. Milan Kundera once defined a small nation as "one whose very existence may be put in question at any moment; a small nation can disappear and knows it." Czechoslovakia is a small nation. Judea was. Israel...
...Muslim call to prayer in Arabic. "Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" the call begins. Mesmerized, the Tadzhiks as one man -- there is not a woman in sight among the 10,000 except Alexandra -- raise their hands in the traditional Muslim posture of worship. The Soviets stiffen. The officers disappear from the windows. Except for the wail of the mullah, a total hush has descended upon the gathering. After the prayer call, the mullah reads a sura from the Koran honoring the dead. Three minutes later, the prayer and reading are over, but there is an unmistakable new militancy...