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...week of stunning, swift disaster in China. Nearly a million Communist troops along a 400-mile front poured across the broad Yangtze, Nationalist China's last great defensive barrier, and swept government positions aside like puny earthworks in a raging tide. In four days they took Nanking, cut off Shanghai, and captured half a dozen cities...
Supreme Court rulings upholding legalized abortion, first in 1973 and again this summer, reflect the belief that women have the right to choose whether or not to bear a child. Nor did these rulings buck a tide of populist opposition; polls have shown that a majority of Americans believe women should be able to opt for an abortion...
after the vessel was located trying to secure it for the lift, but the incoming tide prevented an attempt...
...fall of Bhamdun panicked the Christian political leaders, who demanded that Gemayel do something to stem the tide of Muslim and Druze military power. In response, the Gemayel government asked that French and U.S. planes make a show of force, and so they did. In the meantime, the Lebanese government launched a propaganda campaign asserting that the Druze forces in the mountains were receiving the active military support of both Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization. There is no question that Syria is providing arms and ammunition to the Druze, in the hope of undermining the Gemayel government...
...casualty of the means painters chose to assert their pictorial honesty: the near religious cult of flatness. The intricate bumps and hollows, bosses and knots and smooth rotundities of the bodily landscape were generalized down to patches. By the start of Pearlstein's career, in the ebb tide of abstract expressionism, the very idea of rendering the posed body in a room seemed absurd; it required the most taboo act known to late modernism, making a spatial illusion, turning the flat plane into a window...