Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen as a master of crisis, directing a horror movie. The adjective most often given to his work, nightmarish, is not quite true to Bacon's intentions; it does not go far enough. For nightmares, like movies, end. Bacon's images, on the other hand, are thrust at us as the enduring substance of reality. They are not fantasies, but observation slits into a Black Hole of Calcutta, in which man thrashes about, stifled by claustrophobia and frustration, stabbing with penis or knife at the nearest body. This, Bacon insists, is the real world; it defines the suppressed...
...chronicling the black student movement of the sixties. Turner divided it into two phases. He said the first phase was centered in the South and desk with social issues outside of the university. The second was a Northern-based thrust, representing the efforts of black students in predominately white colleges to come to terms with "the basic question of black studies and the control and nature of the university," Turner said...
Boxer-like stance, jutting chin, sharply carved features, set on a square face make McCloskey's appearance every bit as vehement as his presidential thrust into New Hampshire--an impassioned vendetta against the Nixon Administration. "I am just tired of being lied to by members of the executive branch and having information concealed, and I think they have fallen into the habit of lying and not just to the people and the press, but to Congress...
...leads to key ports on the Bay of Bengal. Early last week, according to a Pakistani general, one battalion of Indian regulars operating alongside a battalion of Mukti Bahini crossed the Indian border point of Boyra. From there, camouflaged with netting and supported by tanks and heavy artillery, they thrust northeastward along a U-shaped front into East Pakistan...
...still owns substantial acreage picked up during his days as dictator. Thus, instead of calling for land expropriation, he speaks of "colonizing" new lands to increase production. Much of his party's appeal is rooted in the frustrations of the lower classes, and the party's overall thrust is to the left. But the magnetism of the old dictator and his daughter seems to outweigh the appeal of orthodox Marxism...