Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that during the ball she was made a $900 offer to purchase the most recent return, a 9 ft.-by-6 ft. modern work. The local artist said she is trying to reach the would-be buyer, who is in New York, to find out whether he is still interested...
...questions can put Iran's internal-external politics into the proper perspective. The Islamic Republic, now approaching its seventh year of volatile tenure, has taken every possible measure to entrench itself as a theocratic despotism. Its leaders, armed with the radical Iranian brand of Shia ideology, which utilizes the modern totalitarian techniques of mass mobilization and suppression of all opposition, believe they are in firm conrtol of the country...
...hostages in Tehran, North led a detachment of Marines who were poised in Turkey to assist the rescuers. A year later, while studying at the Naval War College in Providence, he came to the attention of Navy Secretary John Lehman because of a paper he wrote extolling the modern military uses of the battleship. Lehman pushed North onto the NSC staff, where he quickly became known as an ardent Reaganite. He was an obsessive worker; starting at 7 a.m., he was often in his spartan office in the Old Executive Office Building 17 hours later. He toiled away on weekends...
Recent events in Israel belie the country's image as a modern democracy. On June 24, the Minister of Interior decided to take active measures against citizens thought to be spoiling the Jewish identity of the country. From then on, identity cards will specify if the bearer is a "real" Jew or merely converted. In the lines usually specifying nationality, the words "Jewish (converted)" will appear...
...this week, completes the trajectory. The organizer of both shows, the English art historian Ronald Pickvance, has brought together 70 paintings and 19 drawings from this last phase of Van Gogh's short life. Here we see the stuff of the most powerful legend of suffering and transcendence in modern art, and no superlatives seem apt to encompass its beauty and emotional range. It is a characteristic of great painting that no matter how many times it has been cloned, reproduced and postcarded, it can restore itself as an immediate utterance with the unexpected force of strangeness when seen...