Word: fored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That, in the long run, has to be the main criterion for judging sports movies. With a very few exceptions, these films don't aim at bringing any important theme to an audience. In an era of incredibly mindless films, sports movies remain in the fore of anti-intellectualism. The people who go to these films have to be sports fans, and jock-sniffers as a general rule aren't very concerned with internal meanings, just the final score...
Guaranteed Jobs. Carter's problems came to the fore at the National Urban League's annual convention in Washington. The organization's executive director, Vernon Jordan-one of the President's admirers-rebuked him for not working more aggressively to improve housing for the poor and "guarantee jobs for all who can work." As Jordan explained to a reporter: "We expected Mr. Carter to be working as hard to meet the needs of minorities and the poor as he did to get out votes. But so far we have been disappointed. [He] has fallen short...
...first description of their aims, Kirchner's "Chronicle," which was published in that year. With the dissolution of the primary group, and the marked changes in its members' work as a result of their experiences during the First World War, a new generation of Expressionists came to the fore. The post-war generation was concerned not so much with the syntax of painting as with defining artistic vocabulary. Confident of what was now an established language, these later artists were concerned with making statements that were often not merely artistic, but social and political as well...
...Senator Henry Jackson agrees with this. (A corollary, held by several senior policy experts, is that Carter underestimated the extent to which paranoia is a factor in Soviet strategic thinking.) Ford told a student group at the University of Michigan: "I believe there was too much public rhetoric" be fore and during the Moscow meeting. Jackson told newsmen: "Everything is out in the sunshine, and that was something new for the Soviets. The style took them aback...
Daring Calligraphy. Mine's work was not all indictment. It had its celebratory side as well, and this came to the fore in the 1920s. It took the form of a series of dramatically affirmative "work portraits," designed, as Hine un abashedly put it, for "social uplift," such as Powerhouse Mechanic, 1925. He hit the peak of this imagery in 1930, when he began to document that marvel of audacity and skill, the construction of the Empire State Building. As Trachtenberg remarks, Hine's Empire State series, with its daring calligraphy of girders and Icarian figures treading...