Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaps wildly between dance steps, skitters through others, as Lorry flicks a shoulder to off-accented beats. As at a dress ball dragging into the early morning hours, we glimpse odd expressions and actions we're not sure happened at all. The Mays pretend we don't exist; we catch them unawares...
...private. Though Social Security officials assured the Linowes commission that safeguards had been designed to keep the insurers from obtaining this information, a recent test of the system showed that this was not true. Security has been tightened, but the goof underscored Linowes' point that "there does not exist a means of guaranteeing complete confidentiality of data stored in a computer bank. We just don't have the technology...
...European ancestors, that the battlegrounds of art history soon revert to pastures. There is no secret about Motherwell's sources: cubist collage, surrealism, Matisse. In fact, his own collages -perhaps the most consistently beautiful body of work produced by any artist in the past five years-could not exist without the example of Matisse's découpages. His natural tone as a painter is probably the closest any American artist has come to that of Matisse...
Since 1953, the Shah's rule has become increasingly repressive. During the regime's first decade, opposition parties were allowed to exist, although the Shah controlled the country firmly. In 1963, the Shah's so-called "White Revolution"--including a token land reform program that has failed to change the grossly inequitable distribution of wealth, and the massacre of thousands of members of the opposition--made Iran a one-party state, removing all traces of democratic government. Like every shah before him, the current Shah claims to experience visions granting him absolute authority over his people...
...Life. Despite that vacuum, despite the black opposition that still exists, there is no question that the youths have captured Soweto-partly on their own, partly because their elders failed to lead. And the townships will never be the same. True, some aspects of the old Soweto still exist: the neatly kept gardens of middle-class black homes; the Dube Lawn Bowls Association, whose members still gather every Sunday in their English whites; the Zionists, an Africanized Christian sect, famous for their daylong religious dances that begin at prayer services in backyard tents on Saturday nights...