Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sketch, with every color shift worked out in advance. Yet the way the paintings work on the eye is unpredictable, and almost baffles analysis. As Art Critic Bryan Robertson put it, "We are creatures of habit and rarely fully stretched. Riley's paintings are alive with potentiality; they disrupt visual complacency and do not provide us with any opportunity for evasion or rest...
...that rarity in the art, reorientation. A successful movie like Amarcord or Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore depends on preconceptions of society, asking the audience to consider its extraordinary perspective. These movies are not shallow, but neither are they active challengers of prescribed notions. They expand rather than disrupt, playing off what we already believe. Antonioni hopes he can make us forget, at least for the moment...
...presidential palace at Belem and the headquarters of the rightist Republican National Guard. Less than three hours after the aerial attack, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gongalves announced that the coup had been crushed. That night President Francisco da Costa Gomes denounced it as "a reactionary adventure" designed to disrupt the forthcoming elections and named his old friend, former President António de Spínola, 64, as its leader...
...Yale Corporation adopted policies Saturday that call for the suspension of expulsion of students who persistently disrupt speakers on the Yale campus...
Clarkson was, to everyone's surprise, skating with Harvard, forechecking and backchecking solidly enough to disrupt the Crimson offensive attack. Clarkson even outshot Harvard by a slight margin in the first period, and only excellent saves by Brian Petrovik kept the Golden Knights off the scoreboard...