Word: voided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brush were a butcher knife. Their look, eyes glaring from African-mask faces, is accusatory, not inviting. Even the melon in the still life looks like a weapon. The space between the figures is flattened, like a crumpled box: it was in this play of code between solid and void (one apparently as "tactile" as the other) that the formal prophecies of Les Demoiselles lay. Though he plundered African motifs such as masks and Bakota funerary figures for Les Demoiselles and its sequels, Picasso neither knew nor cared about their tribal meanings or uses. To him, they were merely shapes...
...again tested, and Vader's evil has a magnetic power that is far more potent than the weapon he carries in his gloved hand. Luke, who is not yet strong or virtuous enough to resist such temptation, escapes only by letting himself fall desperately into the void below...
...explanation, Tutu and others cite various factors, secular and spiritual. Tribal religion lost power as Africans began to cross tribal lines. Islam might have filled this void, but the much anticipated Muslim surge, funded by new Arab oil wealth, has yet to materialize in black Africa. More important, most experts agree, is the record of the Christian missionaries. According to one theory, the past stereotype that missionaries were deeply disliked and distrusted stemmed from colonists, not from Africans. Today missionaries are sometimes seized upon as political scapegoats and expelled by new nationalist leaders. But Africans are still surprised and touched...
...ambiguous? Everything and nothing makes sense. His characters are not only waiting for Godot, they are waiting for waiting, preoccupied with the lack of activity. Estragon cries out in an exasperated voice: "I don't know why I don't know!" and the hollowness of his confession typifies the void the playwright strives to create...
...second and third periods, New York notched four straight goals and deposited the Bruins in the void of elimination. Now the Bruins can rest until next season, and the Islanders, by virtue of their 4-2 victory last night at Boston Garden, advance to the NHL semifinals after capturing the best-of-seven quarterfinals, four games...