Word: millet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strict neutrality" toward the Afghan insurgency, overland resupply across the border has become increasingly unsuccessfuland expensive, since the required bribes at border posts have risen accordingly. As a result, mujahidin in the hills have no meat, rice or corn. Above the Pich valley, they eat only stale millet bread and sairai leaves, which resemble holly in texture as well as appearance. "Because of Kunar's terrain I don't think we can be eliminated with guns," concludes Wahid, a 24-year-old former Kabul University chemistry student who serves as liaison between Jamiat units in Kunar...
...European Paintings, has arranged a survey of the century's progress that is unmatched anywhere. The central space is devoted to the century's culminating stylesimpressionism and postimpressionism. With 13 flanking galleries, he could give one to Courbet alone, three to Degas, others to Millet and the Barbizon School. Besides a solid representation of the century's early neoclassicists and a number of Goyas, the new spaces allow a full sampling of the sentimental and pretentious salon art that the century's avant-garde had to contend againstCabanel's sleekly erotic...