Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deteriorated into a bloodbath that led to a dictatorship. Ever since, lurching wildly through two empires, two royal restorations and five republics, democratic France has tried to bridge the contradictions posed by its brutal beginning. Even today, when the left-right dialectic of French politics has softened under a socialist government leaning toward the center, the bicentennial has abraded old sores...
...wake of the Prime Minister's latest disclosures, opposition members intensified their demands that he step down. "Your hands are dirty," charged Socialist Diet member Kanji Kawasaki. Takeshita, 65, refused to do so, vowing instead to reform the system. To his critics, Takeshita declared, "I have no intention of taking a quick way out of this crisis...
...filed against any elected politician). But on another level the question is whether Japanese politics is so blatantly suffused with the passing of cash that it is practically impossible for officeholders to avoid the appearance, if not the actual commission, of impropriety. Said Takako Doi, chairwoman of the Japan Socialist Party: "The Diet as well as politicians have lost the trust and confidence of the public...
...banners and posters that once festooned the avenues and office buildings have vanished, along with their exhortations for workers to fulfill the latest Five-Year Plan and their dreary pronouncements that the socialist road is the road to peace. If the boilerplate is not missed, the color...
...spent much of my last full day in Moscow at the apartment of an "unofficial" -- i.e., banned -- artist, the late Vasily Sitnikov. A true eccentric who built kayaks by hand in the vain hope of exporting them to the West, Sitnikov scorned "socialist realism" in his art. His most serious paintings alternated between a touching optimism and a profound morbidity. During our afternoon together, we discussed the plight of Soviet artists, and I left with two paintings hidden under my jacket (in case KGB watchers were about). On my return to Moscow this year, I saw a fully sanctioned exhibition...