Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Third, as the President understands, prosperity is often the best and sometimes the only route to freedom. Although "((economic)) growth alone will not democratize China," said U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, whom Clinton invoked to defend his stance, "it creates a fluid political and social environment and the emergence of a class of prosperous Chinese -- all of which fuel democratization. Evidence from South Korea and Taiwan shows that prosperity breaks down old controls and generates demands for improved political and social conditions...
...American writing. At that time a physician cousin told the family that Price's prospects were "six months to paraplegia, six months to quadriplegia, six months to death." He endured multiple surgeries, steroids that distorted his mind and body, torturous physical therapy that proved unavailing, massive leaks of spinal fluid and altogether understandable despair. When the battle was over, when the addictive pain-killers and useless back braces and countless other palliatives were tossed aside, he was paralyzed and in perpetual pain. The cancer seems dormant now, but the doctors make no promises. Yet Price insists that...
...oriented society. Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault, the artists of the exhibition at the Carpenter Center, explore the "many meanings in today's society" of the female body by focusing on the perceptions and treatment of women's breasts. Creating the ambience of a hospital with steel gurnies and fluid bags, the artists force the audience to view the display with the Foucaultian clinical gaze that has become the bedrock of post-modern criticism. "Sharp Appetites" intelligently examines the history and contemporary situation of sexual politics with an analytical eye. Thought provoking and intelligent, the exhibition balances serious issues with...
Women fondling themselves, or nudes smiling at the camera are all objectified and reduced to the simple expression of their bodies. The artists seal photos or reproductions in polyethlene bags and fill them with a clear gel, resembling the silicone used for breast augmentation. Others contain a milk-like fluid to conjure images of lactation. The juxtaposition of these different bags imply the early absorption and acceptance of male-dictated femininity by linking these sexual pictures with a universal image of childhood...
...Maryland is a very skilled team," Alissi said. "The transition has to be fluid...