Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If that awkward, gangly girl with unkempt hair and a belligerent expression represents the new ideal, I say phooey!
The President then moved on to terrorism. The recent incidents, he claimed, were not proof of a latent French anti-Semitism. Instead, radical elements sabotaging France's role in mediating the Lebanese confrontation, were to blame. After announcing a series of security provisions, including police reinforcements and the creation of...
But Nagy explains that the classics are much more than just well-written literature: "If you focus in on Homeric poetry, one of the oldest forms of poetry in Greece, what you really have is the survival of the fittest, to put it cruelly. And you ask yourself, why did...
Wagner's Festspielhaus is, as usual, in transition. During its early years, it was the physical realization of Wagner's artistic vision: a theater built to his own specifications where his revolutionary music dramas could be given their fullest expression. After Wagner's death in 1883, his...
The novel is a bedazzlement of popular entertainment and what, after more than 50 resistant years, is still called experimental writing. Its author, Mario Vargas Llosa, 45, is a versatile Peruvian with a growing international reputation. His previous novels include The Time of the Hero, The Green House and Conversation...