Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party leadership tendered the proposal published in its newspaper, Pravda, as its solution to the ethnic conflicts that threaten to rip apart the Soviet Union. More than 200 people have died in ethnic strife in the past 18 months, and groups in several of the 15 republics are calling for secession...
...Lodge is not above taking himself apart in the same way from time to time. As he flits between styles, voices and tenses, Lodge constantly points out the deficiencies of the novel while steadfastly sticking to its conceits. Introducing Robyn, he describes...
Industry is finding it ever harder to compete with Europe and the Far West. And without anything real to support it, the university system is falling apart from lack of funds--Robyn can't even get a permanent...
...thickly in oils instead of acrylic. The grid of Scully's paintings in the '80s speaks of two things: a desire for large order and a sense of impending slippage, as though the columns and lintels of paint had to be constantly tested, as though their pinning could come apart just as the painter turned his back. They are not smoothly designed but look somewhat improvised, like the sides of large huts. They are very "New York" paintings, but the city they evoke is not the foreigner's imagined grid of perfect planes; rather it is gritty, heavy, slapped-together...
Bush's rhetoric and his actions have proven to be far apart. For the good of our country, we should hope that the idea of an Education President is not a dream. But if Williams is any indication, we should all wake...