Word: meant
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Such statements are clearly propaganda. True, it will never be known how the revolution might have progressed had there been no U.S.-backed contra challenge. Yet it is clear that the Sandinistas have long since backed away from their three original pledges, if they were ever meant seriously. In its foreign policy, Nicaragua today is indisputably aligned with Moscow. The comandantes both vacation and attend conferences in East bloc countries, Nicaraguan students are sent to schools in Cuba and the Soviet Union, and the country's formidable military forces are armed by Moscow and trained by Cuban and Soviet advisers...
Nicaraguans are divided in their assessment of the Sandinistas. On one side are ardent believers who charge that the yanquis are imperialists, the contras are traitorous mercenaries, and the comandantes are true nationalists. To many, the revolution has meant better schools, improved health care, and the forging of a national identity. On the other side are those who understand the Sandinistas to be dedicated Communists, and some would say, with Reagan, that they will stoop to any crime to impose a totalitarian state. As many as 250,000 people have fled Nicaragua since the triumph of the revolution...
...Greek vases and Mr. John Taylor holds up a lady's garter. Peering into this lost world--reprehensible, no doubt, for its elitism, sexism, amateurism and other social vices, yet not without its allure--one realizes what Sir Sploshua's friend Sir George Beaumont meant when he swept aside the doubts of an uncertain client: "No matter, take the chance; even a faded picture from Reynolds will be the finest thing you can have...
...Keeffe always rejected the idea that her scenes of New Mexico were meant as symbols or allegories. But it is hard to see their contrasts of image -- an Indian paintbrush or a wild daisy put against the bleached bone of a ram's skull, and that bone repeating the ancient permanence of mountain line -- without grasping that some transaction beyond the simply formal or factual is afoot. This is particularly true with her flower paintings: magnified closeups, filling the whole surface, of a black iris, a jack-in-the-pulpit, or a calla lily. Almost from the moment that they...
That it happened in English helped too. Posters were meant to be read by the crowds, as well as seen by foreign cameras. The Filipinos easily made their own case on American talk shows. By contrast, the fall of "Baby Doc" Duvalier in Haiti made less vivid TV. Cameras could show the undernourished Haitian country people, happy but still fearful, but much of the expression of their emotions got lost in translation. The problem was once wryly summed up in a book title by Edward Behr, who had covered the Congo: Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English...