Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loathed the new abstract art from its beginning. Johnson planned to include Wright in his epochal 1932 Museum of Modern Art show on the International Style, but Wright peevishly pulled out, unwilling to be lumped with designers he considered hacks. Wright slagged his architectural descendants, calling the International Style "totalitarian." Yet he remained by deep temperament a modernist, driven always by the urge to create novelty: the Guggenheim is far more a building of the 21st century than the 19th...
...Boris Yeltsin acted legally when he banned the party and seized its assets after last year's failed coup attempt. But the political stakes are higher. The trial will consider the high crimes and misdemeanors attributed to the party and perhaps outlaw, once and for all, the kind of totalitarian system it created...
...democrats' defense hinges on the claim that the Communist Party was never just a political party but a totalitarian state structure ruled by an elite who pulled the strings of a puppet parliament, government and judicial system. The case will be based on a trail of paper evidence linking the party leadership to almost every decision of importance -- or unimportance -- made in the Soviet Union. Says presidential lawyer Sergei Shakhrai: "We will show how the Politburo passed laws, not the parliament; how it rendered judicial verdicts, not the Supreme Court; how it managed the economy and launched space flights...
...Winston Churchill came to Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., and declared that "an iron curtain" had descended across Europe. Last week another idle leader sketched a different vision: Mikhail Gorbachev came to Fulton and called for a world that is "democratic for the whole of humanity." The collapse of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe has released "exaggerated nationalism," old territorial claims and bloodshed, he said. "It would be a supreme tragedy if the world, having overcome the 1946 model, were to find itself once again in a 1914 model...
...Brice Lalonde, who is Environment Minister in Mitterrand's Cabinet and is called "the Pink Submarine" by his opponents; they view him as a subversive Socialist who uses ecology as a front to promote his ambitions. Lalonde, in turn, calls Antoine Waechter, the leader of the Greens, a "totalitarian" who rejects all compromise...