Word: prying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Some 65 miles south of Nicaragua's border with Honduras, at a cluster of settlements known as Tasba Pri (Free Land), Sandinista officials hail what they describe as a model of revolutionary Indian development. Everything is new, from the tin-roofed wooden houses to the local schools and clinics. Equally new are the residents, some 8,500 Miskitos who were forcibly moved to the settlement two years ago from 42 villages near the Honduran border. A blanket of benign restrictions governs Tasba Pri; the residents are free to travel, for example, only after they apply for permission. Above...
...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...