Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes promise the fire this time. A Patton-size U.S. flag fills the screen and is set ablaze. Video clips of Los Angeles cops pummeling a helpless Rodney King are underlaid with the words of Malcolm X fulminating against the white devil. Flames of black rage gnaw at the fabric of the flag until it is burned into a huge X. America, the image says, created Malcolm X in a centuries-old crucible of race hatred. And the legacy of Malcolm, murdered in 1965, helped define the battered field of today's Stars and Stripes...
...Peter Alexander wove contrasting registers and tempos into a 12-tone musical fabric. Unlike the tonal classical music of previous centuries, 12-tone music does not use a hierarchy of pitches and chords. The music configures and reconfigures arrangements of all 12 notes in a scale throughout any given piece. The result is a seemingly unpredictable array of sounds that are highly structured and self-reflexive. The piece--for violin, cello and piano--paired soft, slow sections with furious fortes. The instruments seemed to communicate with each other while establishing a fascinating harmonic tension...
...indication of this frayed fabric is that the small parks at 500 Franklin St. and on Green Street behind 1000 Mass Ave. are haunted by alcoholics and drug abusers. Some of these men occasionally make threatening gestures toward passers...
Flooding Central Square with alcoholics and drug abusers at this time will destroy the presently existing delicate fabric that is bringing us all together...
...Valdez spill zone. While the borough's wildlife escaped serious damage, its all-important fishing industry suffered mightily. "Domestic violence and divorces soared, and visits to mental-health services almost doubled," says borough Mayor Jerome Selby. "We're never going to be able to mend the social fabric of the community." The borough wants $280 million to create nature preserves, recreation areas, a fisheries technology center, an archaeological museum and other projects...