Word: guts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...structure of Korean madang-gut or folk epic works like a chain. Its intent is to alternately constrict and release the crowd's emotional energies through an unfolding sequence of acts depicting celebration and tragedy...
...madang-gut, literally, "openyard festival," has been compared by western critics to the epic drama of Brecht, in its recovery of neo-primitivism as the starting point of "experiemental" drama. Brecht's influence is especially evident in the elimination of the stage. Instead, the audience participates in the illusion. The drama begins with an appuri, an opening act whose typical function within the epic form, as Marxist critic George Lukacs observes, is to create "the sphere of life" where "a loosening of the bonds that tie men and objects to the ground" can spontaneously occur...
Since then there has been a marked change in Ronald Reagan's attitude. His gut instinct has always been to put as much pressure on the Soviet Union as possible, and in the past few months his confidence has grown that he can do this without incurring any major risk. According to the prevailing view among Reagan's advisers, the Soviets have the most to lose if they back out of the upcoming summit, so the U.S. has nothing to lose by acting assertive...
...Supreme Court ruling did more than just gut Title IX. Soon after the decision, the Justice Department began to apply the court's interpretation to all laws prohibiting discrimination by recipients of federal funds. Thus protections under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a 1973 law forbidding discrimination against the disabled, and 1975 legislation against age discrimination were dismantled at one stroke...
...puzzling equivocations between things painted and things named, the other with his mock- scientific glosses. But this is no bad paternity for an artist to have, and the slightly skittish intelligence of Winters' paintings is bound to appeal to those sated (as who is not?) by routine parades of gut sincerity and pantomime anguish...