Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Lady Diana is not much seen just now, what with all the royal tutorials and wedding preparations, she is already being widely imitated. Her haircut is copied. Her outfits are being knocked off. Her husband-to-be met a vanguard of Di clones in New Zealand on his trip, and commented, "Not as good as the real thing...
...artistic horizon and the other on the bottom line. "Film makers are not necessarily good administrators. And the concept of the studio is vitally important. But the majors understand the selling of films more than the making. Zoetrope is based on the new technology. We're in the vanguard of the electronic revolution, and I want the other studios to copy us. They can make excellent pictures and a lot of dough...
...just two months after the first sit-ins, its purpose was to coordinate protest. In subsequent years, it looked for sources of independent Black political power such as voter registration campaigns. But within six years, SNCC was in its dotage, became a feeble, vulnerable, yet ever more rhetorical intellectual vanguard in the rush toward Black militance. Clayborne Carson's portrait of the group in its transition from SNCC to what one member called the "Non-Student Violent Uncoordinating Committee" reads like a primer on political organizing, full of insight into both the sources of SNCC's strength and the seeds...
...past 30 years, vanguard art seems to have lost its "political" role. At the same time, although we still have lots of art - a stream of it, feeding an apparently insatiable market and providing endless opportunities for argument, exegesis and comparison - painting and sculpture have ceased to act with the urgency that was once part of the modernist contract. They change, but their changing no longer seems as important as it did in 1900, or 1930, or even 1960. When one speaks of the end of modernism, one does not invoke a sudden historical terminus. Histories do not break...
...Raiders boast a parallel on defense, Ted Hendricks, the Mad Stork. Together with "Dark Days" Lester Hayes--who recalls Dick "Night Train" Lane, having picked off 18 passes in 19 games--Hendricks will vanguard the Raiders' effort to eviscerate the birds...