Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The first unambiguously beautiful bike design represented in this show was the 1915 Iver Johnson, with its arched frame and sculpted fuel tank (a feature that would become a near obsession with bike designers 75 years later). By the '20s and '30s, bike design was part of larger design fields...
The idea for the meeting originated with Iranian moderates who were friends of Abdi's. They approached a Cyprus-based human-rights group called the Center for World Dialogue, which organized the conference and invited Rosen. Although the two men are still poles apart in their thinking, they welcomed the...
The British historian Alan Bullock's early interpretation, for example, had Hitler as, among other things, a cunning, low-rent charlatan. The other great British Hitler explainer, H.R. Trevor-Roper, constructed a Fuhrer on the grand, demonic scale: a Great Bad Man theory of history. Between the poles of Bullock...
Start with two fellows from Omaha, Neb., born 25 years apart. One was frail, comical-looking, yet he epitomized elegance in an era when glamour was the ability to steer a slim lady around a dance floor. The other man was bulky, brooding, with the artistic mission to break things...
Amid such soaring rhetoric, it was hard to recall just what NATO is: a military alliance. It is about the commitment and deployment of armed forces. The Clinton Administration has done its best to portray it as something else--a political association devoted to institution building. But the Czechs, Hungarians...