Word: provinciale
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Raja'i is unlikely to be much more than a front man for Beheshti and his clerical allies. The new Prime Minister is unimposing in person; he has no popular following and little apparent political savvy. Critics say that he is "headstrong" only when standing on firm ground. Arrested...
UNLIKE MANY RECENT American movies, which often leave behind the sour aftertaste of burnt pizza, cute French petit-fours such as Coup de Tete impart no flavor at all. They slide down smoothly, provincial realism and honest emotion buried beneath the sweet, slick icing of a clever plot and anti...
The ruling junta, composed of three military officers and two civilians, has initiated broad economic and land reforms to pave the way for eventual democratic rule. The reforms have been bitterly resisted by rightist groups, which have attempted two coups in recent months. The leftists, on the other hand, claim...
Provincial by Western standards, the artists whose work was vandalized by the state at Cheremushki may not have been of high interest, outside the U.S.S.R., to a historian of style; it was as though the New York City police had been sent to crush one of the weekend art shows...
Most unofficial Soviet art is earnestly provincial, dotted with quotations from Western modernist styles -abstract expressionism, Pop, minimalism-which cannot be assimilated properly because of the scarcity of information: one copy of a Western art magazine affects painters more, in this samizdat atmosphere, than do five museum shows in Manhattan...