Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sacramento, California's Governor Jerry Brown drops in on a Mexican-American convention. "You're the leading minority in the Southwest," Brown tells the crowd. "It's your turn in the sun and I want to be part...
...their diversity, the Hispanics have brought some distinctive flavors to the American banquet: the thumping Tex-Mex music of the Southwest borderlands; the salsa dancers of urban discos; the splashy colors of wall murals in Latin communities across the U.S. Equally distinctive are a number of attitudes that many, if not most, latinos share...
...than those demonstrations, but ultimately more fruitful, may be the timeconsuming, door-to-door work of men like Willie Velasquez. A former activist with La Raza Unida (The United Race), a chicano social and political movement founded in the late '60s, Velasquez, 34, now heads the San Antonio-based Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. Says he: "Every immigrant group that's come to this country has gotten involved in the political process as a major part of their advancement. We keep giving the same message: political participation is indispensable to any minority group." Last year the project registered...
...unity of the front-line states (the others: Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique and Botswana). Their goal is to install a black majority government in Rhodesia, preferably headed by leaders of the Patriotic Front. The Front's guerrillas greeted the reopening of the railroad by blowing up tracks in southwest Rhodesia. The damage was quickly repaired...
...real sense the abstract expressionists in their early years were like religious artists without a context, practicing a deeply felt but homeless (and culturally impossible) totemism. Some, like Pollock, drew direct inspiration from Southwest Indian art, transforming it-as in The Key, 1946-into the congested, baroque rhetoric of shape which would later be refined as the allover skeins and webs of his drip paintings. Still and Rothko regarded their art as mediumistic: it was, Still declared, a way of "being with in a revelation," and this kind of priestly bombast was a regular feature of abstract expressionist utterances. Painting...