Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because the first explosion was inspired and directed by the country's leader, Mao Zedong. "Today's protest is a genuine student movement, spontaneous, yet well disciplined," he says. "We do not feel threatened." In fact, Liu's son and daughter-in-law have gone to Tiananmen Square to show their solidarity with the protesters...
...history's calendar, last week had been circled in advance. It was set aside, blocked out ahead of time for a grand show involving two men who wished to immortalize themselves through a feat of statesmanship...
...forbidding gap between private lives and that distant sense of a common ground was first bridged on April 26, when 150,000 people flooded the square to show disapproval of an inflammatory People's Daily editorial that denounced the students. "That was a major breakthrough in Chinese modern history," says Roderick MacFarquahar, director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. It marked the "first time since 1949 that a demonstration by society against the state was made successfully in the face of a powerful government...
INIGO JONES: COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, Drawing Center, New York City. Designer, painter, mathematician, engineer and antiquarian, Jones (1573-1652) was the greatest royal architect England ever produced. This impeccable show reveals the technical and pictorial skill with which he led English architecture into a new, classically based grandeur and amplitude. Through July...
...banks of the Charles the day before, the Harvard and Radcliffe heavyweight crews continued to show why they were the best crews in the nation this spring. The Black and White ripped past Yale for the Case Cup. The Crimson nipped Penn and Navy for the Adams...