Word: representive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shi'ite fortunes began to change in the 1960s, following the arrival in the coastal city of Tyre of Moussa Sadr, a highly educated Shi'ite cleric from the holy city of Qom in Iran. A charismatic preacher and shrewd organizer, Moussa Sadr formed a devoted following and in 1969...
The real peculiarity of his figurative style is that it manages to be both precise and ungraspable, for its distortions of face and limb bear little relationship to anything that painters have done to the human body since Cezanne. Forms are governed by slippage: they smear sideways, rotating, not like...
CD players are transforming the way people listen to music. With their sweet sound, easy operation and virtually indestructible disks, they represent a technological leap beyond records and tapes (see box). Manufacturers confidently predict that CD machines will become the standard music player, overtaking sales of turntables and cassette decks...
G.O.P. leaders in the House went to work on a compromise that would address the concerns of their own defectors. These disgruntled Republicans wanted strict limits on the use of humanitarian aid, a promise to seek new bilateral talks and an acknowledgment that human rights in the four-year-old...
Atlanta Mayor ANDREW YOUNG at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass.: "As I ; drove back to my hometown in New Orleans (after graduation), I passed through the state of Georgia and I was afraid to stop, for Georgia was perhaps the worst place in the United States in those days...