Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush Announces Bold New Arms Control Initiative, Plans to Reconstruct East Bloc Economies...
...American ones as well, in particular Sargent and Whistler) were transfixed by Velazquez when they found him on their pilgrimages to the Prado. Francis Bacon contorted Innocent X into his own series of screaming Popes. Picasso did a knotty and unsuccessful series of "variations" on his work, attempting to reconstruct it in terms of something other than empirical vision. Velazquez's influence appears in unexpected places: if, for instance, one wants to know where Philip Guston felt some of the authority for his last paintings lay, where those eloquently clumsy speckled gray-and-pink shapes looked back to, one need...
...very important that the vacancies be filled so that the Corporation can move. I think we all realize [Bush has] got a lot of important appointments to make," Vorenberg said. "We're asking that this be one of them. What he really needs to do is reconstruct the whole institution...
...discloses "a foreign policy of necessity designed to provide breathing space." But this necessity has bred a virtue: the plaudits for Moscow's policy shifts have led to an overall advance of the Gorbachev cause overseas. It is, of course, domestic imperatives that have forced Gorbachev to readjust, even reconstruct Soviet foreign policy. Henry Trofimenko, a specialist at Moscow's Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, laid the Kremlin's newly realistic approach squarely on three forces: money, perestroika and the need for Western assistance. Said Trofimenko: "First of all, we should spend less money abroad. Second, there should...
...this show, that meant: go back. Because he had not recorded or notated any of his works, Robbins assembled casts and creators from the old productions and led a kind of seminar in Broadway archaeology. To reconstruct the bathing-beauty ballet from High Button Shoes, Robbins had the score and some silent footage that had been shot surreptitiously. Luckily, the national company's dance captain, Kevin Joe Jonson, had made notations of the ballet on tattered sheets of paper that he carted around through five marriages. For the Comedy Tonight number from Forum, an original cast member sketched...