Word: footholds
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...Even though many varieties of and ideas about video art exist, the moving image has only a narrow foothold in most art museums. So, when I stepped inside the Institute of Contemporary Art, I was interested and excited to see the museum filled to the brim with moving images, including Dutch artist Marijke van Warmerdam's 7 Thoughts, a series of projected film loops, and an international sampling of video art from the 1999 Venice Biennale...
...special club nights. Other than the creation of the Kroks in 1944 by a group of four guys who liked hanging out in the second floor bar, little of lasting significance occurred. But things began to change in the late 1960s and early 1970s when counterculture found a foothold at Harvard...
...Kosovo late last week, waving their arms and firing guns out of armored vehicles. While the Russians were first into Pristina, the Serbian departure was quickly followed by the arrival of the British and the French, who came early Saturday to begin the work of establishing a NATO foothold. In the Kosovar village of Urosevac, ethnic Albanians showered NATO forces with flowers. One man said it was the first time in 10 weeks that he had emerged from his basement hiding place. The U.S. has pledged a contingent of 7,000 soldiers to the Kosovo Force (KFOR); the soldiers...
Audacious musicians are the best. They've been all over the map with their talents and tastes, they've been a part of power-pop band The Semantics, they've toured with Shania Twain, Pat McGee, Amy Grant and Janis Joplin to get a foothold in the music industry, they've jammed with Ben Folds for fun. And then they retire to their living rooms in Alabama to craft their solo pilot over four meticulous years, which they subsequently drop off at the major labels with a rakish take-it-or-leave-it attitude until Giant Records snaps...
...like pulling the control rods out of a nuclear power plant...the delay in bombing allowed [the Serbs] to establish a foothold to obliterate the population in Kosovo," she said...