Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embattled reformist President of Iran, Mohammed Khatami, and his efforts to promote moderation, expand freedom and normalize Iran's relations with the outside world. "The court is trying to get rid of me," Nouri told TIME last week. "But the trial is really a trial of the reform movement...
...heart of Germany. The prison is a fabulous castle placed in the German countryside. The train-ride through the European backwoods creates nostalgia for the innocence and beauty Europe held before World War II. Claude Renoir, the cameraperson for this film, does an excellent job capturing a sense of movement and depth, especially given the crude technology he had at his disposal...
...Throughout the world, anime is renown for fast-paced action and dynamic treatment of movement (the characteristic "motion lines" that accompany every punch and kick). As for the really big eyes? One theory postulates that the over-exaggerated eyes of anime characters are a way of turning the "slanty-eyed" stereotype of Asians around to caricature Americans. In any case, it's all in good...
Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) strutted their stuff in Nike, Gap and Harvard gear on the steps of Memorial Church yesterday, while announcers condemned the conditions under which their clothes were made...
...allowing a millions-strong religious sect whose leader is based in the U.S. to flourish beyond official control in China, the very form of the Falun Gong protest - quiet meditation and exercise - highlights the problem facing the authorities' attempts to crack down. "It's almost impossible to stop a movement that's spread by word of mouth and whose basic manifestation is a regime of exercise and meditation," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Security services can monitor small networks of dissidents, but they simply don't have enough people to monitor something of this scale...