Word: expressionism
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Although she never mentioned China directly, Hillary Clinton left little doubt that she was chastising her hosts in Beijing in her address today at the U.N.'s Fourth World Conference on Women. "Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize and debate openly," she said. "It means not taking...
Museums are often associated with bygone periods and remote artifacts--Renaissance paintings, Egyptian sarcophagi, the fossilized bones of velociraptors. Because the Rock Hall (as Clevelanders call it) focuses on music that has always been identified with rebellious youth culture, its exhibits seem forever fresh, bursting with the antiestablishment adolescent energy...
Mother Angelica preaches total loyalty to the Pope and the magisterium (the church's teaching authority). Her most provocative expression of that faith took place during John Paul II's 1993 visit to the World Youth Day conference in Denver. One feature of this event was a mimed pageant on...
Of the tens of thousands of grants that the NEA has made in its 30-year history, perhaps a dozen have excited serious controversy and only two--to the Mapplethorpe show and Serrano--have brought it to the verge of abolition. Significantly, neither case involved a direct grant by the...
"How many more atrocities do we have to witness?" asked David Bonior (D-Mich) in arguing for a U.S. lifting of the arms embargo on Bosnia. On an overwhelming vote of 298-128, the House agreed, brushing aside fears that such a move could Americanize the war or lead to...