Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...table decorated with bouquets of daisies at Jerusalem's King David Hotel last week were Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the head of the Likud Party, and his political rival, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres. The two men smiled, shook hands and joked with each other. But the outward congeniality belied the serious political deadlock that had brought them together. Nine days before, they had battled to a virtual draw in parliamentary elections. With neither party in command of enough seats to form a majority in the Knesset, the two leaders were exploring the possibility of joining in a government...
Meanwhile, Deng has forced China out of the ethnocentricity developed over two millenniums of imperial supremacy and resuscitated by the almost religious xenophobia of Mao, while urging it to look outward for its economic models. "The Chinese have rediscovered that they are the center of the world," observes a Western diplomat in Peking. "They have put themselves in the position of being courted by everyone...
...freshman Julie Glucksman who charms and coruscates as Nora. Beautiful enough to carry off lines like "it's a good thing everything looks good on me" and delightful enough to make us understand Torvald's obsession. Glucksman also manages to sustain a fine balance between her character's outward uncertainty and inner strength. Her refusal to play the cliched "strong woman" through the first two acts makes Nora's third act awakening all the more shattering. Instead of emphasizing the potentially didactic element of the script. Glucksman convincingly brings out the deeper, more rivelling dilemma of a woman forced...
...democracy implicit in Reagan's speech. Besides challenging the concept of separation of powers and the system of checks and balances. Reagan would suppress all public opposition to his policies for the sake of maintaining our credibility abroad. The President is right to underscore the potentially positive impact of outward unity in international negotiations, but he goes too far in asking for a blank check both from Congress and from the American public...
Except for a few intense and contorted still lifes, all the paintings in this show are of the human figure, usually centered, glaring outward with the dilated mania of the eye that first transfixed its audience in the preparatory paintings for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon three generations before. No exhibition in memory has been so full of eyes (or of anuses and genitals, his other fetish objects). The late work attacks and reattacks art-history themes, figures by Rembrandt, Poussin, Manet, Delacroix, Rousseau. It is culturally saturated, as well as drenched in his macaronic, theatrical and self-mocking sexuality...