Word: flux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only thing that remains constant about Harvard Square is that it is in a constant state of flux...
...mass media and the density of the great capital, Paris. Cubism is the urban art par excellence. It celebrates the rapid stream of half-completed impressions, the overlay and stutter of images and ideas, enforced by the tempo of city life: it is the art of cultural compression and flux. With its materials, subjects and techniques, it lighted up the commonness of the modern world...
...follow Braque as he patiently constructs his first real masterpiece, Violin and Pitcher, 1910, is to watch a classical sensibility throwing itself into the flux of uncertainty and coming through intact. Chardin still lives beneath the silvery buckling planes of the pitcher, and every one of the hundreds of angles at which the shallow facets of the picture impinge on one another seems both provisional and immutable. But this -- let alone the far more abstracted paintings of late 1911, in which the thinnest of clues to the identity of objects (a pipestem, a playing card) swims in a vaporous gray...
GIVEN an international situation in a remarkable state of flux, it is particularly disturbing to think of the immobility and ineffectiveness of our government in addressing its own problems. It is perhaps not surprising that President Bush began his term on a cautious, vigilant note. However, even though Bush did offer a desperately needed plan to relieve the debt burdens on Latin American governments, his first four months seemed, on the whole, to be lacking an agenda, reactive rather than active, characterized by weakness and vacillation...
...first to admit that the world is in a volatile state of flux. Indeed, after eight years of the Reagan Administration, it is not surprising that democracy is emerging throughout the world, and that the superpowers are steadily decreasing their arms...