Word: umbrellaed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memory in the preservative desert air, flit through empty, curlicued facades or congregate amid their elaborate furniture, radiating a wistful chic; as image maker, Curtis is more elegant than challenging. His objects do not confront one another in shock, like Lautréamont's famous sewing machine and umbrella on a dissecting table-they nod, as it were, with mild and civil assent, a little surprised to find each other surviving in Arizona. Survival, in fact, is the keynote of such art. In the end, even the nostalgia of Philip Curtis' vision serves its purpose, which...
...about the same time. P.F.L.P. leaders came under strong pressure to turn over bargaining responsibility to the Palestine Liberation Organization, an umbrella association of fedayeen groups that is dominated by Guerrilla Chief Yasser Arafat, the comparatively responsible leader of Al-Fatah. The other Palestinian organizations were eager to gain control over Popular Front actions because of stinging criticism that had been heaped on the hijackers by most Arab governments, including the commandos' usual allies Iraq and Syria. Popular Front officials reluctantly agreed to the evacuation of all hostages from the airstrip and to the release of some women and children...
...celebration, half a dozen women frolicked nude in the plaza fountain behind Government House. In Santiago's Constitution Square, a man paid off an election bet by carrying an open umbrella on a sunny afternoon and wearing a donkey tail. But other Chileans panicked at the news. Fearful of a stampede of scared investors, the Santiago stock market closed for a day for the first time since 1938, and depositors withdrew massive funds from Chilean banks. The black-market rate for the escudo soared to as high as 50 to the U.S. dollar-as compared with...
Such awareness has been long in coming. For years, the city's black gangs have been allowed to flourish under a protective umbrella of white-liberal and black community support. Despite the formation of a special police gang intelligence unit, organizations like the Black P. Stone Nation (formerly and more famously known as the Blackstone Rangers), the Black Disciples and the Vice Lords increased their memberships into the thousands and engaged in shooting sprees, beatings, extortion and intimidation. But for all that, adult black leaders did not criticize the gangs, visualizing them instead as an organized and potentially constructive...
...their equipment in order to prevent the Communists from using any of it if and when they try to reoccupy the gutted sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia. Davison ordered the emplacement of numerous fire-support bases just inside South Viet Nam to shield the last men coming out with an umbrella of artillery shells...