Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...partition of Iraq that could extend Iran's influence in the region. Neither prospect has disappeared. With Bush in Houston trying to reinvigorate his political fortunes, it was impossible to escape cynical questions about what was for real -- and what was for political effect. No more convincing was the sudden European eagerness to provide air protection to Iraqi Muslims solely on humanitarian grounds; Europeans have not yet made a similar commitment to the Slavic Muslims in neighboring Bosnia...
...unlikely that this show will force a sudden rewriting of American art history. No judgment by aesthetic, rather than racial, criteria can make him into a lost "great American painter," though certainly he was a good one. The show, and in particular Powell's detailed catalog -- a benchmark in the study of black American art -- do open a door for Johnson's entry into that history, even though Powell's claim that Johnson was a kind of black Marsden ; Hartley, discovering full identification with his people through folk culture, passing from a "narrow and skewed" Eurocentric primitivism to a fully...
...their 30s or 50s, and they fall in love with a particular woman." Lani Kaahumanu was a typical San Mateo, Calif., housewife, wed to her high school sweetheart for 11 years and the mother of two children. With the women's movement of the '70s, "all of a sudden there was this freedom to love women," says Kaahumanu, 48. She divorced and for four years lived what she calls a "very public lesbian life." But by 1980 Kaahumanu had fallen in love with a man. Wolf speculates that women come to a realization of their bisexuality later than...
...unrelenting savagery produced television images that shocked the whole world: terrified babies tied to bus seats, the funeral of two toddlers killed by snipers, a sudden -- apparently intentional -- mortar attack on the mourners. Then came persistent reports of torture and starvation in detention camps and more terrible television images, this time of skeletal, bruised men behind barbed wire...
Which shakes my sudden blood to hatred...