Word: expansionism
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Most striking was their yearning to make art in permanent places-the walls of caves. This expansion from the body to the inert surface was in itself a startling act of lateral thinking, an outward projection of huge cultural consequence, and Homo sapiens did not produce it quickly. As much...
And not the first such disgrace. Four years ago, the National Museum of American Art produced an exhibition on America's westward expansion that mined every artifact for evidence of white racism and rapacity. Former Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin called the show "perverse, historically inaccurate, destructive." These exhibits are...
Such concerns have helped darken the outlook for executives like Stafford. Instead of the strong earnings she once expected, Stafford looks for profits at her company to be "stagnant or slightly down this year.'' Meanwhile, she is keeping her expansion plans on hold for at least six to nine months...
Israeli disenchantment is only half the problem. The peace process has been heading for the rocks over the steady expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, already home to 120,000 people. Though Rabin's Labor-led coalition pledged to ``freeze'' settlements upon taking office in 1992, the government...
Older Japanese homes are often perched a half-meter or so off the ground on wooden frames. ``It's as if the house is standing on stilts,'' says Scawthorn. ``In a quake it collapses, and the house comes down.'' Well-placed plywood braces, combined with steel-expansion bolts anchoring the...