Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson review of February 15 (Visible for a Change) attempted an aesthetic critique based on implied "universal" standards of the slide-show installation, Visible for a Change: Contemporary Lesbian Artists, U.S.A. That seemingly politically-neutral review should be understood in terms of its unstated political context. The very subject matter of Visible is how these political contexts relate to artists who identify themselves as "lesbian artists...
...such a setting, there is nowhere to go but about one's business. People become passers by, moving through neutral spaces between private point and private point, between home and office, insulating themselves from the unexpected. The Conscience of the Eye is an attempt to explore the origins and implications of this condition of insulation, to explain the curious feeling of unconnectedness that is familiar to anyone who has passed a homeless man on a grate, or observed through plate-glass windows the comings and goings of strange offices and apartments...
...Saturday at the Howe Cup tournament in New Haven, the Princeton women's squash team proved that their 5-4 victory over a younger, less experienced Harvard squad on February 4 was not just a fluke. The Tigers beat Harvard, 6-3, on neutral ground, cementing its imminent title as national champions...
Confronted by a formidable coalition of arms, he fires missiles at civilians in a noncombatant state. Taking a terrible pounding from the air, he sends some of his best planes and pilots to the airfields of a neutral country, leaving his troops and citizens that much more defenseless. He parades visibly mistreated POWs before TV cameras, arousing the disgust and wrath of the powers arrayed against him. He releases hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf, threatening not just his neighbors but also his own people with ecological disaster...
...Japan "forever" forswore recourse to "the threat or use of force" internationally. Less sweeping strictures went into West Germany's 1949 Basic Law, the covenant serving united Germany today. Both nations have fervently embraced pacifism. A January opinion poll asked Germans which country ranked as their ideal; 40% chose neutral Switzerland...