Word: utterness
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...lavish party to the next. Briefly the choruses of "interesting" drown out the arpeggios of the singing gondoliers. This preserves the idea that the Biennale has some kind of following outside the art world itself -- an illusion. For everyone then departs, leaving the festival in a state of utter torpor with three months...
...changed through the years. The history of Germany has been a long, slow, disappointed voyage toward the light, toward popular freedom. It started with the Enlightenment and was defeated. It tried to revive and was defeated by the way Germany was united in 1871. Finally, thanks to the utter destruction of Germany in 1945, it got another chance, and is now being realized. We should be celebrating reunification with at least two cheers...
...week, he faces the growing dilemma of how to house and employ the largest flood of immigrants to Israel since the early 1950s. Meanwhile, Moscow's decision to lift the gates on Jewish emigration has so infuriated Arab leaders that their outcry no doubt prompted President Mikhail Gorbachev to utter a veiled threat at his final press conference in Washington last week. If Israel did not halt Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, he warned, new thought would be given to "what we can do with issuing permits for exit." Israel and Washington balked, and three days later, Foreign Minister...
...most overpowering impression in the Vale these days is the utter alienation of Kashmiri Muslims. Anti-Indian sentiment has spread from the angry young men of the J.K.L.F. and the twelve other rebel organizations to the businessmen and bureaucrats who might be expected to support the status quo. The best recruiter for the rebels is the curfew, which the government has imposed off and on since December. In April the curfew lasted 17 days straight. It was intended to keep 1.5 million Kashmiris in place while heavily armed troops carried out house-to-house, room-to-room, closet-to-closet...
...Helms knows as well as anyone in Washington how strong the know-nothing streak in America is and how to focus its rancor -- which is, in essence, what he has done with the National Endowment for the Arts. Only this can explain why thousands of people who don't utter a peep when the President pulls billions from their wallets to bail out crooks and incompetents in the savings and loan industry start baying for the abolition of an agency that indirectly gave $30,000 to a now dead photographer. When Robert Mapplethorpe, that much overrated lensman, posed with...