Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their gold and foreign exchange reserves by 100%. Thousands of European firms have merged to take advantage of the market of 180 million that the European Economic Community has created, sending Volkswagens to Belgium, French cheese to Munich, Chianti to Holland, Dutch chocolate to Milan, in a great, borderless swirl of what were once national products...
...immigration to Canada was much smaller in numbers than in the U.S., and Canada made different use of it. Most U.S. immigrants came not merely to a country, but to an idea. They were thrown into a swirl of enterprise that could be brutal but that was deeply committed to the future and-after the Civil War-to unity. Canada never became a melting pot: its people mixed but failed to merge. In a thinly settled country, dominated by the secular empire of Britain (or, in French Canada, by the clerical empire of the Catholic Church) people identified themselves more...
...Russian dancers performed in Paris from 1895 to 1909, he relished the contrast between the unbridled brilliance of their national costume and their rigorous enmeshment in the dance, using the full richness of his palette to capture the barbaric richness of the dancers' native dress and the joyous swirl of their steps. And, as Degas mastered the art of portraying dancers, he eventually developed a prickly affection for them. "There's something artificial even about my heart," he confessed. "The dancers have sewn it up in a bag made of pink satin, rather faded pink satin, like their...
...tung to keep his revolutionaries occupied with internal Chinese matters. Western observers believe that it is precisely because Mao is having trouble gaining the upper hand at home that he has so strongly rallied the Chinese against Russia-a trick as old as tyranny. Within China, though the swirl of disorder seemed to abate temporarily, opposing factions busily jockeyed about to win both minds and territory. Mao's increasing dependence on military force illustrated his conviction that "rifles make the regime." Army units in Canton warned that unless anti-Mao forces were defeated, "our state may change color...
...does not always win such praise from O.K., as he signs his works. A far more personal statement is a recent oil, Saul and David, full of the swirl of clashing colors and impetuous brushstroke. Explains the painter: "I painted David next to the angry old man. The old man is biting his teeth because it's over." Then slapping his knee with vigor, Kokoschka adds, "He is furious at being...