Word: proletarianism
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...austerity in an impure medium that could easily become cluttered with props and set dressing. Segal is no formalist, but his sense of the abstract underpinning of sculpture cuts down on what might otherwise have become a tough-but-tender street sentimentality. He is, as the catalogue suggests, a "proletarian mythmaker," though not in a political sense; and no other sculptor working in America today has done more to revive the human figure as a subject...
...received a phone call from a man with a foreign accent. His message: "We now have Michele Sindona as our prisoner. You will be hearing from us." Several days later, the missing man's family reported getting a letter from his captors saying that he must answer to "proletarian justice." U.S. law enforcement officials remained skeptical and listed him as a "missing person" rather than as a kidnap victim. Said Italian Magistrate Guido Viola of Milan, where Sindona has been charged with a bank fraud totaling $225 million: "More likely, he has fled to some distant place...
...everywhere. "Each part of a futurist picture," Natan Altman argued, "acquires meaning only through the interaction of all the other parts"; its task was not to depict, but to explain dialectical relationships. Illegible in themselves, the fragments of form live "a collective life," like the faces in "a proletarian procession...
...prize catch appeared to be one of the Autonomisti's leading theoreticians, Antonio Negri, 45. He is a soft-spoken political scientist who teaches at both Italy's University of Padua and Paris' Ecole Normale Superieure and has sympathized with violence for the sake of proletarian revolution. Accused of practicing what he preaches, as both a secret organizer of the Red Brigades and a figure in the Moro atrocity, he was taken to Rome for interrogation...
Tang, who was purged at the beginning of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, said the atmosphere surrounding scientific work in China, is only now returning to what it was in the early and mid-1960s...