Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supported -- and after Louis' death was in turn supported by -- the argument that after Pollock painting had only one way to go. No more figures, organic symbolism or utopian geometry; no more gestural surfaces, tonal structure or cubist layering of space. In future, art would hang onto the spread-out, expansive quality of Pollock's work while refreshing it with a new intensity of color, inspired by Matisse. At the end of the purge you would have a clipped but radiant discourse of pure hue, fixed by an exaggerated pictorial flatness, done in thinned translucent washes that became the surface...
Ever since the advent of AIDS, two questions have been haunting Americans. How far and how fast is the incurable and almost invariably fatal disease likely to spread? And does it pose a threat to the general public -- that is, the vast majority of people who are neither homosexuals, bisexuals nor intravenous drug users...
...initial discovery was in the homosexual community . . . AIDS is found in heterosexual people as well. AIDS is not a black or white disease. AIDS is not just a male disease. AIDS is found in women; it is found in children. In the future AIDS will probably increase and spread among people who are not homosexual or intravenous drug abusers...
...against that grim background last week that Koop, in a dramatic report to the public (see box), warned that AIDS will spread beyond its current high-risk groups into the general population. He called for greater use of the only weapons currently at hand for controlling the AIDS epidemic: education about the disease beginning as early as the third grade and prevention. Koop's report was educational in itself. It was comprehensive and accurate, and its warnings were expressed in sexually explicit language that readers could not fail to understand...
California conservatives are loathe to waste such an opportunity to spread their revolution into the judiciary. The Right has spared no expense in a campaign to oust the Court's three most liberal Justices, knowing that their defeat will enable Republican Governor George Deukmejian to appoint new, conservative Justices and thereby shift the ideological balance of the Court...