Word: splinteringly
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...hand were delegates from pro-Chinese splinter parties in Western Europe and Peking-controlled Communist parties in North Viet Nam, North Korea, Indonesia, Japan and, of all places, New Zealand. Rumania and Cuba also sent delegates, indicating an interesting degree of independence from Moscow. None of the other, normally pro-Moscow parties attended. Peking meanwhile rejected another Moscow invitation for a meeting of the worldwide Communist movement...
...once a week. Says N-Man Manfredo Massironi, 27, "We consider ourselves technicians, in the medieval sense, rather than artists." Going to the Nth degree, they use prisms and grids, often machine-driven, whose rippling moiré patterns look more vibrant through spotlighted darkness (at left, top). A similar splinter group is Spain's Equipo 57, who like others sign their work collectively (lower left). Their theory starts with "interactivity," in which any two planes in a painting are separated by an Scurve, and end up as mathematically interlocked-and complicated-as a Bucky Fuller dome...
...attack, there were major issues at stake such as Canada's nuclear commitment to the U.S. Now the rough and tumble in the House of Commons often sounds more like a schoolyard squabble. Diefenbaker makes the most of it to be devil Pearson and ridicule him before the splinter parties on which he depends for support...
...prove he means business, Pearson intends to regard the flag vote as a vote of confidence. He will probably win it: Canada's three splinter parties have pledged to support his minority Liberal government on the vote. But a flag and an anthem are only first steps in joining together divided Canada. "Our problem today," said Mike Pearson to the House of Commons recently, "is not one of nation-building. It is a problem of nation-saving-saving this nation from forces that weaken and could ultimately destroy...
Kill the Father. An offbeat splinter group, the Academy of Psychodrama and Group Therapy, got into the act by staging a curtain raiser for the main meetings in the form of a Kafka-style reconstruction of the personalities and possible motives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. Said Manhattan's Dr. Jacob L. Moreno, who invented psychodrama as a medium for acting out emotional disturbances and thereby treating them: "We are all suffering from a tremendous amount of unresolved guilt and confusion over what happened to President Kennedy. After all, if you can 'kill the father...