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...years in the future. This was, in a way, part of Der Blaue Reiter's aim. Unlike the earlier Die Brcke movement, the second wave of prewar Expressionism-Marc, Kandinsky and their collaborators-did not paint the social upheavals of their time. Instead, they attempted to transcend social discord by creating images of other, hypothetical worlds. For Kandinsky, this meant a focus on apocalyptic imagery. And for Marc, of course, there was the natural world...

Author: By Annalise Nelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ALL THE PRETTY HORSES: FRANZ MARC AT THE BUSCH-REISINGER | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

Lamy said the World Trade Organization (WTO) is not yet an operational system of global governance. He cited its failure to come up with a set of specific guidelines for international trade in Seattle because of discord between the U.S. and the European Union...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: E.U. Official Urges Global Structure | 11/2/2000 | See Source »

...dirty secret of a show like "Titus" (Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. ET) is that discord is hilarious. You laugh because - well, what's the alternative? "People want something that reflects their lives," says creator-star Christopher Titus, who based the series on his autobiographical one-man stage show "Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding." "Sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional," he boasts in the pilot. "That means we're the majority. We're normal." Without victim-speak, "Titus" looks at how Titus has become his screwed- up self in reaction to, and emulation of, his womanizing, boorish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Post-Nuclear Explosion | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...Census Bureau, 27 percent of American families with kids are headed by a single parent. "Family comedy," though, still carries overtones of the Ike years, when sitcoms like "Father Knows Best" defined the genre and American pop culture was supposed to promote stability, peace and the effacement of discord at any cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Post-Nuclear Explosion | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

Having studied 1,000 squabbling couples (if you can imagine that!), Epstein and colleague Donald Baucom of the University of North Carolina determined that the roots of most discord lie in three key areas: autonomy vs. togetherness; emotional investment; and the issue of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marriage 101 | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

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