Word: quilts
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Such praise from a South African head of state would, not so long ago, have been unthinkable. For nearly 40 years, Gordimer has spoken out against apartheid, that crazy quilt of laws and restrictions that enabled the white minority to control and suppress the country's black majority. She has done so in her fiction, although subtly and without tub thumping; she portrays the strains of racial divisiveness and oppression by monitoring their effect on individual characters, recognizable lives. As a private citizen, Gordimer has often engaged in more direct opposition to her government's policies...
...must first secure the consent of a majority of its students' parents. In the two years since Thatcher's plan went into effect, 102 schools have cut their ties; 11 are on the verge of final action; 88 more await government approval. They are the first patches in a quilt of autonomous schools -- which are tax supported and tuition free but in effect can operate as if they were privately run -- that the country's Conservative government hopes will blanket the country...
...Soviet Union? That huge blob of blood red that dominated maps of the Eurasian landmass for 70 years now broken up into a crazy quilt of squirming lines enclosing a kaleidoscope of colors? The concept is even harder to grasp than the idea of a noncommunist Soviet Union. There had once -- for centuries, in fact -- been something like that, in the form of the Russian empire. But no monolithic state covering that immense area -- none...
Yeltsin's approach has drawn mixed reactions from the officials whose regions would most benefit from the new policies but whose privileges are sewn into the Communist Party patronage quilt. "The party should work outside the workplace, that's plain," Yeltsin told 4,000 workers at a jet-engine factory in Perm as local big shots listened glumly. "I am for the departification of the army, the KGB and the factory." In Tula this message was so badly received that officials cut off power to Yeltsin's microphones for an outdoor speech, then smirked as the candidate struggled with...
...thesis, Wong combined pictures from fashion magazines with photographs of herself simulating a bulemic episode. She printed the images on pieces of fabric and sewed them together. She displays the quilt like a tablecloth, laid out on a table and set with china and glasses...