Word: ism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appeal: smaller government, lower taxes and fewer, less costly social programs. They're confident as well that the President's attempts to retard their march will fail or be perceived as obstructionist and that his embrace of some G.O.P. nostrums will be dismissed by voters as desperate me-too-ism...
...room; this veiled figure is the first of the Sibylline crones who would keep turning up in his later work. He does Fauve blotches -- Mediterranean with measles, after Matisse and Derain -- and combines them with elements of the classicizing movement which, in Catalunya, was known as noucentisme (20th century-ism), with "timeless" peasant figures, olive trees and old arches...
...enemies, not ourselves, to invade and conquer. Pod seeds fall from outer space and rob sleeping humans of their emotions, their very selves. It was Us vs. Them, cold-war style -- and in this cunning parable of persecution, Them could be communism or McCarthyism. It could be any ism bent on robbing the U.S. (Us) of its ragged individualism...
...more signs of brewing revolt. Cubans have a genius for adapting, we are told. Cubans are law abiding and have no taste for civil disobedience. Cubans are happy "if they have one plate of food and a bottle of rum," says restaurateur Octavio. Cubans don't believe in any ism but paternalism. "The state has provided for 30 years," says Blanco. "That's not the case anymore, but half the population has not adapted to reality...
Every so often the American art world labors and gives birth to a buzz word or an ism. The latest one -- originating in Los Angeles and current for a couple of years now -- is "patheticism...