Word: truce
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...broke his truce between surrealism and abstraction. Preoccupied with "tragic and timeless" subject matter, Rothko wanted to invest the entire surface of the painting with a sense of awe, a ritualistic presence; and in groping toward this he produced some of the least satisfactory paintings of his career?vague, disconnected blots and blurs, pretty as begonias, but otherwise unremarkable. But gradually the patches coalesced, the structure firmed. His breakthrough came in 1949, with a painting named Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red, which created the formula he would explore (with variations) for the last 20 years...
From a bunker near the presidential palace-which itself came under fire from misdirected Syrian guns aiming at Christian strongholds in the hillsides-Sarkis made desperate efforts to invoke a truce. He announced a plan to replace the apolitical "Cabinet of technocrats" that has ruled Lebanon for two years with a new government composed of Christian and Muslim leaders. By week's end Sarkis, who had earlier declared that Lebanon was "on the verge of collapse," had been rudely rebuffed by virtually every important faction in Lebanese politics. Declared former President Camille Chamoun, Christian leader of the National Liberals...
...sent an appeal to Assad in Moscow, urging him toward "a separation of forces." He followed up by asking Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to refrain from intervening in the conflict. Carter also asked Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to exert his "considerable influence in the area" to help arrange a truce. At the urging of the U.S., the U.N. Security Council adopted a cease-fire resolution...
...hard for a lot of old stories, an age that way full of an awareness of ugly, unavoidable realities...It was not that popular films had suddenly become false, for they had always been false. Just that they had become too false, false enough to upset the old, careful truce between wishes and facts." --Michael Wood, America in the Movies...
...proposal, but Smith has not. In essence, the plan calls for Britain to reassert its legal authority over its rebel colony-which unilaterally declared its independence in 1965-as a prelude to holding elections for a new Zimbabwean government. A U.N. peace-keeping force would guarantee a truce until the creation of a unified Zimbabwe army, composed of guerrillas and "acceptable elements" of the Rhodesian armed forces. "You have specific proposals here that one side had accepted, and there is tremendous international support for them," said Nyerere. "Now let's try a little bit of shuttling. We want...