Word: genericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...European countries were advising Washington to be nice to Iraq and would have resisted, out of fear or Arab solidarity, any drive toward containment. The U.S. did not sell arms directly to Iraq. The dual-use equipment sold by the U.S. was not cutting-edge technology but rather more generic items and processes that could have been bought in 10 other countries...
...classical music buffs who are tired of the same old generic sounds of Richter, Brendel, Horowitz or Gilels, Ugorski promises to be a real treat...
...classical music buffs who are tired of the same old generic sounds of Richter, Brendel, Horowitz of Gilels, Ugorski promises to be a real treat...
...Matisse inherited the pastoral mode, replete with allegory. He refers to the poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures in Venetian Renaissance pastorals tend to be generic rather than specific -- "a nymph" rather than Egeria or Daphne, "a warrior" rather than Alexander -- so are Matisse's scenes of Hesiodic primitive life. We will never know what mythological event the standing nude in Le Luxe (II), 1907-08?, with a crouching woman drying her feet, represents: Matisse didn...
...things in the Square that hasn't become completely generic--this and Elise's," says Steven D. Nelson, a second year graduate student in fine arts...