Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The E.T. who appears on the screen is a highly evolved creature. One special-effects crew tried to make the spaceman and failed, spending a reported $700,000 in the process. Then Spielberg turned to Carlo Rambaldi, an Italian painter and sculptor. Rambaldi first came to the U.S. in 1975...
...society respects the autonomy of academic institutions because it assumes that they will devote themselves to the academic tasks that they were established to pursue. This does not mean that universities should refrain from trying to influence the outside world. It does mean that they should exert an influence by...
The computer craze is simply an expression of the layman's fascination for gadgetry and the age-old hope for an easy way out in thinking and doing.
The problems of the campesinos are not entirely new. From the start, El Salvador's land redistribution program has suffered from poor administration, insufficient credit lines and corruption. But the election on March 28 of a constituent assembly dominated by right-wing parties has raised fresh concerns. Major Roberto...
The decline of the serialist school, which had rigidly dominated composition since the end of World War II, has opened the way once again for a more humanistic, accessible form of musical expression. Shostakovich's pensive, sardonic, sometimes anguished style no longer has to be considered a liability. In...