Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock throbbed through The Blackboard Jungle, rock-'n'-roll hit movies with the force of a party doll at a quilting bee. Each form cheerfully exploited the other; neither was ever quite the same. By the '60s, movies were an indispensable tool for marketing any hot new group. Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night pinned the larkish wit of four Liverpudlians on top of the world; Bob Rafelson's Head (co-written with Jack Nicholson) was a brilliant, bilious suicide note from the Monkees to their die-hard fans. Today rock helps...
...doubts about his unmatched foresight. He predicted the Sino- Soviet split and accurately saw that Russia would continue to be a threat because "its perverse paranoia and historical expansionism had been abetted and amplified, but not caused, by the Marxist doctrine." Kennan gave the Wise Men a persuasive tool; when they wanted to argue for an increased U.S. role in international affairs, they invoked the Red menace. It was an effective ploy, but it also proved to have unforeseen and cataclysmic consequences. In making their arguments, the sages of Foggy Bottom created a bogeyman fierce enough to frighten America into...
...Heffernan Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Politics applauded the Soviets' recent candor with the Western press and said that the openness reflected the Kremlin's beginning to use the media as a foreign policy tool...
Photography was not emphasized until the movement's later days. The camera was not seen merely as a means of aethestic expression--the exhibit lacks emotional and classic artistic poises--but rather as a technical tool which could be used to communicate and to explore visual reality. The photographs in the exhibit, created by professionals, teachers and students, reveals the range and versatility of the medium. One of the leaders of photography in the Bauhaus, Moholy-Nagy, created a number of "photograms." Photograms are not traditional photographs, but rather collections of objects exposed on photographic paper. The exhibit runs through...
...vital tool in looking for a job is preparing a resume, a brief presentation of your experience and qualifications that makes an employer want to interview...