Word: salvoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gund Gallery. Nor should it bother us so much, at this stage in the game, that the scholar's rock and the Buddhist relief are utterly divorced from any notion of social function or historical relevance. As the exhibition labors to argue, the apparent ahistoricism of the initial salvo is possible only because Chinese culture itself has perpetuated the timelessness of its ancient aesthetic and philosophical traditions, allowing one to make logical comparisons across centuries of time (as Chinese artists often did themselves...
...Clinton also understood that the American people were rejecting the old labels and divisions of the past in ways that many in the media and politics were slow to pick up on. This is precisely why Clinton's lead was never seriously challenged throughout the fall campaign, and why salvo after salvo from Dole fell on deaf ears...
Pepsi put some money where Sinclair's mouth was too investing $3 billion in the past three years in international bottlers. In April, Sinclair launched another salvo, a $500 million marketing campaign, called Pepsi Blue, to introduce a new, sky-hued can in 24 countries and to reinforce Pepsi's image as the coolest cola in the cosmos...
...have a bank card, a business card and way too many credit cards. Do you still have one card too few? Visa, MasterCard, Citibank and Chase Manhattan all think so. This fall New York City will thrill to the roll-out of cash cards, the latest salvo in the banking and credit-card industries' eternal search to replace currency with plastic. Despite promises of a cashless society, 85% of everyday transactions are in cash or checks, which generate little income for banks...
Should the song have been remembered for its message, not its messengers? Perhaps, since the singing characters had already been portrayed as shallow bimbos. Before intermission came, the show also managed a salvo aimed at black urban culture. Stunned silence from some and guffaws from others greeted Nick Gordon's caricature of a performance as Sheik Ir-Bouti, recently returned from Long Island. In addition to the odious attributes of the show's writing, the majority of the actors suffered from overplaying that reached beyond the simply funny and into the realm of the suicide-inspiring...