Word: restorationism
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Havel insists he will serve only until elections for a new Parliament are held, probably in June. Like the political figure he is increasingly compared to, Poland's Lech Walesa, he seems to prefer being kingmaker to being king. But in the brave new world of Eastern Europe, all axioms...
The former attorney general claimed that hewould provide the "strong, personal leadership"necessary to lead the people in restoration of thestate to its former level of excellence.
Initially Gorbachev believed he could restructure the country by replacing hacks with doers, offering real rewards for hard work and cutting back on the consumption of vodka. In short, he counted on the restoration of discipline. It took two years for him to discover that the problems were much deeper...
The Sistine Chapel project was a breakthrough that made believers of the skeptics. Even the Vatican's chief restorer, Gianluigi Colalucci, concedes that future computers will recall in an instant visual information that used to require years of research, including, he adds with a laugh, "the errors we are making...
In the past, technological advances in art have moved from the new world to the old, as when computer techniques developed by NASA to enhance satellite photos were adapted for use on the works of the old masters. That flow has, to some extent, been reversed. With a major portion...