Word: homegrown
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...Tunku, who was so shaken that he broke down and wept during a political speech, blamed Chinese Maoists for the riots. While Chinese Communists did constitute a real problem until 1960, when they were finally rooted out after a twelve-year campaign, the racial disharmony was strictly homegrown. Until the riots started, Malaysia enjoyed a prosperous economy based on tin, rubber and palm oil. But the wealth was not spread equitably. Like the Tunku, many Malays have a leisurely lifestyle, a world apart from that of the bustling, aggressive Chinese. Consequently, the Chinese, and to a lesser extent Indians, outpaced...
Sometimes the biggest losers in the game of corporate musical chairs are those companies doing the hiring. By finding room at the top for outsiders, they risk discomfiting homegrown executives who are passed over in the process. Says Los Angeles Management Consultant Thomas J. Johnston: "Much depends on who you bring in. If the man has stature that everybody recognizes, you have no problem...
That they have. A decade ago there were no more than a handful of West Coast painters of note. Today, California embraces the vast, variegated range of op, pop and minimal, not to .mention such homegrown mutations as the weird, surrealistic offshoot known as funk centered around San Francisco. Los Angeles' particular contribution is an array of bright young individualists who espouse the belief that the object is what is important, not what it represents. "We are going beyond abstraction," argues Robert Irwin, who at 40 is something of a guru to the group. Irwin's own works...
...administrators are now taking art to the ghettos with branch museums or art-mobiles. Often, they find whole streets in Harlem covered with murals by amateurs. Near by are apt to be makeshift art schools set up by residents. Although desperately in need of funds and technical assistance, such homegrown facilities suggest that underprivileged areas want art and are willing to do something about getting...
...York City Ballet offered some of the most spectacular dancing-and it was strictly homegrown. During its spring season at the New York State Theater of Lincoln Center, it displayed a repertory of 41 dances, a chiaroscuro of choreographic talent unmatched by any company in the world. A good three-quarters of the works were created by George Balanchine, 64, who uncharacteristically looked into his past by re-creating his first big Broadway hit, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, from the 1936 production On Your Toes...