Word: expressionism
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On the other hand, the idea of 8-year-olds' celebrating a holiday that shimmies into view wearing a negligee does seem odd. But consider the huge commercial stakes: "The tradition of sending and receiving classroom valentines," observes American Greetings, which owns a $1.8 billion piece of the "social expression...
For many of us, though, Valentine's Day only pretends to celebrate what we like about love while actually undermining it. True romance comes unscheduled, unruly, "a madness most discreet," quoth Romeo. Overtime, as it ripens into devotion, still it improvises, a favor rendered, a sudden kiss, a private joke...
Even though the military, eager for progress before Pakistan's Feb. 18 general election, has reported success against Islamists in the nearby Swat Valley, the militants' campaign against entertainment in Peshawar has only escalated. During the 1990s, when Taliban rule in Afghanistan forced scores of refugee artists into Pakistan, Peshawar...
“I think the primaries are an amazing expression of democracy in the U.S.,” said Kennedy School student Cristina Arango, a native of Colombia and supporter of Hillary Clinton who watched the results come in at the IOP.
During his visit to the Guangzhou train station last week, Wen told the travelers that they "eat bitterness" - a Chinese expression for enduring hardship. That may be true even when they're not stranded by the snow. It has been the willingness of millions of migrant workers to suffer grueling...