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...less successful. It isn't easy to accurately describe a political system which rules by myth. While ostensibly a democracy. Mexico has been ruled by the same party, the PRI, since 1920. The PRI (Party of the Institutional Revolution) began as the centrist party which emerged from the tumult of the Mexican revolution and has steadily consolidated power ever since. Its leadership has never hesitated to cajole or co-opt the wayward peasant leader or union boss. If all else fails, the PRI retains a powerful ability to repress its more intransigent opponents...
...change reflects new fashions in art. Impassive styles of the 1960s and '70s - the chaste morsels of minimalism, the arctic pleasures of conceptualism - are now well in retreat before a wave of gesture, expressionism and all the tumult of "painterly" painting. Encouraged by a climate favoring vigor and personality, artists are propelling the brush past the borders of the canvas or turning out sculpturally elaborated frames that complement work in which the hand prevails. At the same time, a general drift away from resolutely flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture...
Scargill spoke passionately for a motion to condemn police, not the strikers, for the violence on the picket lines. The measure passed amid tumult and cheers for the N.U.M. president and hoots of derision for moderate union leaders. Then Kinnock lost another battle, this one over an arcane party rule giving local constituency committees-usually a stronghold of party leftists-the power to decide whether their parliamentary representatives should be allowed to stand for reelection. Kinnock wanted all Labor Party members, not just the tightly held local committees, to have a vote in the process. The conference rejected his proposal...
...Pinsent finished only eleventh in the 165-lb. class, no one who saw the strain etched on his face would question his Olympian effort. The audience at the Loyola Marymount University arena was a reverent one, quieting to a hush as the athletes approached a barbell, then exploding into tumult following an extraordinary feat. After Rumanian Nicu Vlad, 20, broke an Olympic record in the 198-lb. class with a 485-lb. clean and jerk, the crowd called him back from the dressing room for a bow. Rumania and China took most of the medals, 14 of 30 at stake...
...name is Geraldine Ferraro," she said in a low-keyed but firm voice when the tumult subsided. "I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is a land where dreams can come true for all of us." Her selection, she said, sent "a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limit on achievement." Stressing the openness of her party, she declared, "Change is in the air, just as surely as when John Kennedy beckoned America to a New Frontier; when Sally Ride rocketed into space, and when Rev. Jesse Jackson...