Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...vagina, stamp of femaleness, is despised," she wrote. "The woman artist, seeing herself as loathed, takes the very mark of her otherness and by asserting it as the hallmark of her iconography, establishes a vehicle by which to state the beauty and truth of her identity." The aim of this jargon-sodden Femspeak is to set up a myth of women artists as a hated underclass, which they were not in 1975 and are not today; in such a scheme, vagina hatred is imputed to men as automatically as penis envy once was to women. Questions of aesthetics then dissolve...
...argued that Tally's targets have already been amply peppered, but that objection will not suffice. The perennial aim of satire has been to reiterate the obvious in order to awaken us from abject moral slumber...
...decision came after members decided that they could not accomplish their aim of either reforming or abolishing the committee under the present election system...
...face criminal charges, their release from jail was counted as a major concession from the government and reason enough to call off the citywide strike. To keep the pressure on, steelworkers briefly closed the giant Huta Warszawa plant, and the Warsaw union put other factories on "strike alert." The aim was to force talks on a series of other, highly incendiary demands. Among them: creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate the operations of the police and the state prosecutor, and budget cuts for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which oversees law enforcement. By thus challenging the state security apparatus...
...actions the Soviet Union has taken to render assistance to the Afghan government are purely defensive. These actions pursue one aim: protection of our friends and the security of our southern frontiers. No more than that. The U.S.S.R. has repeatedly emphasized that it stands for a political solution to this problem. Washington knows well that if the U.S.A. ensured the complete termination of outside interference in the affairs of Afghanistan and effectively guaranteed, together with Afghanistan's neighbors, that such interference would not be resumed, the reason for keeping Soviet troops in Afghanistan would be eliminated...