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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...typical abstract artist picks and chooses the elements of sight that please him, becoming more and more recondite as his career goes on. Eventually the artist reaches the point of no return: painting so stripped of concrete meaning that it becomes mere interior decorating, the fate of the Mark Rothkos and Morris Louises of the world. "It clashes with my sofa," is about as much as you can say about this sort of ultra-abstraction...
...Little Shop adds little to the stage play, enlarging some of its jokes while totally blunting its few intentionally disturbing moments. What's left is a cartoony Skid Row where derelicts leap out of the gutter to sing and plants bounce about flower shops attacking everything in sight...
Things might have gotten a little out of hand, but it was only because a "national hero" lost sight of a few things like the Constitution and the U.S. Congress in his zeal to export the American way of life...
Gorbachev's glasnost, though, was put to the test in April, when the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl, a then little-known town north of Kiev. At first the Soviet leader abandoned his open style. He dropped out of sight and did not comment publicly on the disaster for 18 days. When he finally reappeared, Gorbachev denounced the West for producing a "mountain of lies" about the accident. But soon glasnost was back; officials and the press began providing information on the accident to a degree unprecedented for Soviet journalism. Criticism diminished, and near...
...Marcos or her husband's official jailer, Defense Minister Enrile (the man who signed the arrest warrant was none other than General Ramos). In her conjugal visits, she had to share her husband with hidden cameras and bugs. Once, when Ninoy's guards simply removed him from sight for more than six weeks, Cory was forced to wander from prison to prison in search...