Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took a personal and artistic crisis in 1923 to push him beyond ingenious deployments of volume and line. He took off for Mexico with his lover Tina Modotti and one of his sons. He spent the next three years rubbing shoulders with the muralist Diego Rivera, dodging the postrevolutionary turmoil and making pictures under the Mexican sun that specifies every object it falls upon. Among them were a series of vivid head shots, like his startling portrait of Manuel Hernandez Galvan, 1924, that use the subjects' plain vitality to confound the impassivity one expects from monumental figures. The Mexican portraits...
...months later Sauter himself was forced out after Tisch wrested control of the company from then Chairman Thomas Wyman. The appointment of Stringer, a highly regarded 18-year veteran of CBS News, brought cheer to most staffers and may have finally signaled an end to a painful period of turmoil at TV's most prestigious news division...
...recent memory has sought to deceive the press in order to cover up its wrong-doing, a la Richard Nixon, or has tried to use the press as a tool for its foreign policy goals--as Lyndon Johnson did during the Vietnam War, and as Reagan has during the turmoil in Grenada and Nicaragua--reporters have little excuse for being duped by this Administration's latest ploy...
This exercise in dollar diplomacy was evidence that a spirit of economic cooperation, which prevailed only a year ago among the major Western economic powers, has seriously eroded. The basis for the turmoil: sharp differences between the Reagan Administration and U.S. trading partners over how to deal with the nation's huge trade deficit. Rather than concord, said Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust, "it's open warfare...
...some such gesture might be needed to add a semblance of calm to the world monetary scene. As Robert Hormats, a vice president at the Goldman Sachs investment firm, puts it, "If some greater perception of unity doesn't come out of these meetings, the markets will be in turmoil." Most money traders probably felt that they had had quite enough turmoil already...