Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Upon the urging of our host, we walked across a small stone courtyard to the chapel, leaving him to "Manifest Destiny and the American West." We found a winding staircase which led to a narrow balcony to the rear of the chilly room. Outside, the clouds had parted a bit and the sun brought several of the stained-glass New Testament parables to life. The smooth white marble railing we leaned against was cold and damp. For such a small place, it seemed capable of a magnificent silence...
...primary democratic goals of young artists: Man does not exist in the arts of the past, in the arts of yesterday; and he still has to be invented." By this, Thoré (like the artists he spoke for) meant man as political creature, man seen in his manifest social relations-not the decorative peasants of Boucher or the squalid, undifferentiated social lump the French bourgeois imagined the proletariat to be. The task of realism was therefore to record, in Weisberg's phrase, "human needs and social symptoms" -contemporary life, arts, tensions, suffering...
...branches and Boston warehouse signed authorization cards requesting union representation in contract negotiations. Workers complained of low wages, poor benefits, and the Coop's haphazard advancement procedure. They say oppressive work schedules during beginning-of-semester book rushes as well as unfair and often biased monitoring procedures manifest a lack of respect in the management's treatment of workers on the job. Furthermore, the absence of an official grievance procedure robs them of an effective voice to bring up complaints about management's policies for fair consideration and review, a significant problem for older employees who fear raising dirt might...
...making the villains brown, turdshaped creatures who neatly slipped in any out of any available human orifice. In The Brood, his 1979 entry starring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar. Cronenberg realized a brilliant and original idea. Doctor Reed develops a radical psychological treatment that enables his patients to manifest, physically, their traumas and neuroses. Eggar, his star warped patient, grows living, breathing children off her chest. These faceless perversions, products of her illness, band together to destroy anyone who might upset her delicate psyche. That's the kind of idea that turned Cronenberg into a legend. Avco Embassy subsequently offered...
However, the doubts expressed in the editorial about the actions of GUERRILLA manifest something of a misunderstanding of the role and raison d'etre of our organization. This we hope to make clear in what follows...