Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Theroux has also journeyed on the open road, but on a far more expansive one. Encompassing both adventure and introspection, he has recorded journeys from Victoria Station to Siberia, and back, in The Old Railway Bazaar; and from South Boston to the other up of America in The Patagonian Express. Calm and without the intensity of Kerouac, both books afford homebodies a glimpse of the world away from the crackerjack, automatic world of T.V. sets and interest rates...
...every member of the group will be borrowing money. Small states like Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates should remain comfortably in surplus, but hard-pressed countries with large populations, such as Nigeria and Indonesia, will have significant deficits. Richard O'Brien, an economist with American Express Bank in London, estimates that this year Nigeria and the other populous OPEC nations will probably have to sell off assets worth some $25 billion and then still have to borrow about $5 billion from banks...
...Israeli troops. During the latest demonstrations, an eight year-old Arab boy has already been killed, and 30 other people have been injured. The Supreme Muslim Council of East Jerusalem led a successful general strike by Arabs, and throughout the Arab world there have been strikes and demonstrations to express Arab unity and solidarity with the occupied people...
...wholesale. The "illusionist" painters among them, Dali, Ernst, Tanguy and Magritte, all came out of early De Chirico, a lineage astutely discussed by Laura Rosenstock in the catalogue; and as another contributor, Wieland Schmied, points out, German painters in the '20s like George Grosz used Chirican motifs to express their vision of an estranged urban world in social dislocation...
...peasant and proletarian rabble, the state obligingly runs food stores in which only people carrying foreign passports are welcome. These stores carry just about everything, including an inordinately large supply of chocolates and liquor. Payment is in dollars, if you please, or any other suitable western currency: American Express and Visa cards are welcome...