Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COURBET RECONSIDERED, Brooklyn Museum, New York City. Vast landscapes, lavish nudes and masterly portraits in an ambitious retrospective of paintings by the 19th century realist. Through...
...Virginia Hamilton gives every culture equal time and space. The Hurons speak of a woman who started things by falling from a torn place in the sky. The first man, say the Eskimos, hatched from a pea pod. The ancient Chinese venerated a giant who burst from a vast egg. Barry Moser's illuminations treat these legends with dignity and delicacy, and go on to show dozens of other prime movers, including a feathered serpent, an octopus and Pandora. As the paintings prove, each figure is not only a people's fantasy but also an illustrator's dream...
...denounced Estonia's actions as "erroneous." But the Soviet leader admitted a need to "improve considerably" the disputed constitutional amendments before they become law. Said he: "We cannot count on success if our transforming work does not take into account the interests of all nations living in our vast country...
...anyone born of a Jewish mother or converted by a rabbi, regardless of whether the rabbi was Orthodox, Conservative or Reform. The new version would legitimize only Orthodox conversions. Most American Jews have no intention of emigrating to Israel, but they consider the symbolic slap profoundly insulting. The vast majority of U.S. Jews identify with the Conservative and Reform branches, and believe their religious legitimacy would be challenged. They also fear diminished support for a radicalized Israel. "This is something of an endeavor to make Israel more of a theocratic state," says Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union...
Thousands on thousands of southern Sudanese are wandering helplessly through the vast bushland, leaving a trail of bones as they flee into overcrowded and starving towns, abandoning their blooming crops. They are driven to places like Juba by the two armies. The government denies the civilians food to keep it out of the hands of S.P.L.A. fighters. The S.P.L.A. rapes civilian women, steals civilians' food and mines their fields. Its aim is to cause chaos in the towns by flooding them with desperate refugees. "The government in Khartoum has turned its back on the south. The S.P.L.A. forces everyone...