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...looking to a future world unified by technology. Yet its rhetoric was bedded deep in Italian life. The core of the futurist group, which coalesced in the early 1900s, was made up of the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Giacomo Balla, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini, the architect Antonio Sant'Elia and a few writers clustered around the figure of Marinetti, poet, dandy, ringmaster, publicist and red-hot explainer to the global village -- "the caffeine of Europe," as he called himself. They were all Italian; to be Italian then was to inherit a culture dominated by the weight...
...weights evoke violent reactions. The futurists set out to create the image of an Italy that did not yet exist, a utopia of tension and transformation whose god was the machine. Its architecture would not be the old cellular stone hill town but the dream environment conjured up by Sant'Elia: all girders and concrete cliffs, with glass elevators zipping up the exterior walls. Its painting would try to encompass not just sight but noise, heat and smell; above all, it would depict movement. To fix this industrial mode in Italian (and European) culture, the pastoral mode...
...second armed government operation at the temple since the June 1984 army assault in which hundreds of Sikhs, including the extremist leader Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, were slain. That bloody raid provoked widespread Sikh outrage and eventually led to the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards. By contrast, last week only one person was killed and two were injured. Moreover, this time many moderate Sikhs seemed to accept the well-planned raid as a necessary move to stem the increasing violence that has racked the northern Indian state of Punjab over the past...
...John Van Sant of Army picked up his second win of the meet in the 100 breaststroke. Van Sant, Thursday's champion in the 200 individual medley, finished the breaststroke in a record time of 55.62 seconds. Harvard's Scott Hoy gained the second position in 56.13, with both times good enough to beat NCAA qualifying standards...
...John Van Sant of Army won the 200-yd. individual medley and broke the meet record in the process with a 1:49.56 finish. Harvard's Berkoff repeated his second-place performance of a year ago in the event with a time...