Word: pry
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Riding's treatment of Mexico's recent political history is less successful. It isn't easy to accurately describe a political system which rules by myth. While ostensibly a democracy. Mexico has been ruled by the same party, the PRI, since 1920. The PRI (Party of the Institutional Revolution) began as the centrist party which emerged from the tumult of the Mexican revolution and has steadily consolidated power ever since. Its leadership has never hesitated to cajole or co-opt the wayward peasant leader or union boss. If all else fails, the PRI retains a powerful ability to repress...
...primitive elements-the flatness, the sinuous friezelike poses, the outlining-were either there already or deduced from photographs of Javanese, Cambodian and other Oriental material that he took with him. (One should not forget that in the 1880s, Frenchmen were still talking about Japanese art as art pri-mitif.) When he did quote Tahitian art, Gauguin played fast and loose with it, basing (in There Is the Marae, 1892) a Tahitian fence on the design of a tiny Marquesan earplug. In his Tahiti, primitivism was cousin to Baudelaire's paganism and Delacroix's orientalism-a celebration of what...
...arms against the Sandinistas, operating from Honduran and Costa Rican bases with covert U.S. support. Hundreds of Indians have died in the conflict, while an unknown number have been imprisoned, often without charges. Some 20,000 Indians have been forced by the Sandinistas into relocation camps such as Tasba Pri; another 21,000 have fled to Honduras and Costa Rica...
...assault on the Miskitos by proclaiming an agrarian reform law that, according to Miskito leaders, ignored traditional Indian claims and set up rules for giving Indian land to others. The Miskitos so far have received only four land titles, totaling 37,152 acres, for nontraditional farming cooperatives at Tasba Pri...
...George Russell. Reported by David De Voss/Tasba Pri...