Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roots of the great Russian efflorescence go much further back than either Lenin or the 1917 Revolution. They lie in the liberal, high-bourgeois culture of Moscow and St. Petersburg, a culture that pullulated with avant- garde splinter groups and wild chiliastic claims, exquisitely attuned not only to Russian traditions of religious mysticism but also to Cubism, Futurism, Symbolism and other currents in Paris, Rome, Vienna. To imagine that the work of spiritually obsessed artists like Kandinsky or Malevich had any filial relationship to Marxism is to miss its meaning. Malevich, an egomaniacal genius who called himself "the president...
SEPARATISM: Splinter, Splinter, Little State...
...where I live on Memorial Day night, climbed a guy wire and broke the telephone pole. The way the car came to rest -- lights blazing, leaning against the opposite side of the pole from where it hit, the driver dead in the backseat -- and the location of every last splinter of glass in the woods were perfectly explicable by the laws of physics...
...there any guarantee that the remaining five republics will hold together. Carried to its illogical extreme, in fact, the movement toward disintegration could splinter the former U.S.S.R. into upwards of 40, mostly mini, countries -- the 15 full republics plus some of the 20 autonomous republics, eight autonomous regions and 10 smaller autonomous areas. Most are homelands of distinct ethnic groups that cherish ambitions to become autonomous in fact as well as name...
...industry balance of power, from the sellers (agencies) to the buyers (clients). Vast changes in entertainment and other technologies since the mid-1970s have fundamentally transformed the task of delivering ad messages to U.S. consumers. The explosive growth of cable, specialized publications and other media has helped splinter the mass market into thousands of audience shards, scattering consumer attention in all directions...