Word: syncing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard students out of sync with the rest of America or is everyone else not in touch with reality...
...encounter minimalist sculpture by Don Judd and Richard Serra or hear Glass's new sounds in concert. Near by, Performance Artist Anderson was playing her violin on a street corner while wearing ice skates atop a melting block of ice. Composer Steve Reich had already experimented with out-of-sync tape loops in pieces like Come Out; Choreographer Childs had created her early works, like Street Dance. "No one organized an official group or issued a manifesto, as would have occurred in Europe," says John Howell, a New York % journalist who was part of the scene. "Instead, it was just...
...body gestures and facial expressions of liars are often out of sync. The person who bangs the table but then waits a split second to produce an angry face is probably faking...
BUTSON IS ALSO left source less and clueless when it comes to accounting for Gorbachev's actions during the reform days of Andropos's brief rule, when Gorbachev's presumably was in sync with the prevailing root--out bourgeois-corruption atmosphere. The high point of this brief period was Andropov's purge of corrupt Brezhnelackeys, who were to upright bureaucracy what Massachusetts State House politics are to democratic government...
Ronald Reagan, who has done much to embody the new American self-confidence, took his November landslide as a mandate, a massive validation of his work. Reagan won in part because Walter Mondale, whatever the merits of his case, was utterly out of sync with the electorate. Mondale, by 17 years the younger candidate, sounded like the past talking--the old politics of the New Deal and Great Society. It was not that Americans disapproved of the goals (justice, compassion for the poor); many simply felt that the old Democratic ways of reaching those goals no longer worked...