Word: crisscrossed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychological effect on Americans of all this crisscross Realpolitik is to lift a lot of the moral burden off the American involvement. At the least, it seems less tenable to hold that the U.S. was guilty of the uniquely satanic imperialism that antiwar critics often saw-and still frequently see-behind American policy. The new conflicts in Southeast Asia add an element of retrospective perplexity to analysis of what the U.S. was doing there...
...Russia, where there was virtually no tradition of sculpture, the planar impulse took two directions. One-as its name, suprematism, indicates-tried to transcend the material world. The painter Kasimir Malevich and his students, like Ilya Chashnik, devised reliefs and models that in their crisscross of small rectangular shapes and larger blocks resemble models for imaginary buildings or cities. They were, in a very rarefied sense, social blueprints, though quite unworkable ones. Perhaps Russia was the only country in which artists could seriously imagine that abstract art might attain the moral compulsion of a holy picture. Chashnik's Large...
...does this underground Trailways. Last year its buses delivered low rates and lots of laughs to more than 1,000 coast-to-coast passengers. The prototype was a VW van on the Portland-to-Berkeley run ten years ago. Its success prompted a flock of imitators, which still crisscross the continent summers and during the Christmas break. "We all know we're working on borrowed time," says one of the owners, who also doubles as a bus driver. "One of these days we'll be found out, and it will be over." At Big Spring, Texas, we have...
Most of Ely's outdoor-loving people demand unrestricted use of "their" wilderness, including the right to crisscross it in snowmobiles and outboard-powered boats. As a local insurance man puts it: "Why should we be locked out of an area we love...
...birdmen can launch their hang gliders from Yosemite's Glacier Point for a 3,500-ft. descent to the park floor. Fishermen can cast their flies -and hopes-after the three-pound rainbow and cutthroat trout that make their homes in the mountain lakes and countless streams that crisscross Montana's million-acre Glacier National Park. River runners can launch themselves and their specially designed rubber boats down the foaming Colorado for a 277-mile run or trek into Texas' Big Bend National Park and try taking kayaks down the sinuous stretches of the Rio Grande...