Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western diplomats greeted this array of Soviet proposals with considerable skepticism. Muskie and his British, French and West German counterparts discussed the new Soviet campaign at a breakfast meeting in Vienna. Muskie called the Afghanistan plan a "cosmetic and not a meaningful proposal." But British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who has long been pushing his own ideas for the neutralization of Afghanistan, thought the Soviet proposal should at least be explored. Said he: "We should see if we can build on it." Carrington observed, however, that the Soviet plan would simply ratify the conquest of Afghanistan and did not even...
...provoked cubism, and one of the most astounding feats of ideation in the history of art. These days the word radical is patched on to any newish artistic gesture, no matter how small: a puddle of lead on the floor, or a face pulled on video tape, or an array of bricks. This use of the word cannot begin to convey the newness of Les Demoiselles. No painting has ever looked more convulsive and contradictory, and, though one can follow its development through Picasso's early studies, which are part of the MOMA exhibit, the sheer intensity of its making...
...with painting, so with sculpture. Picasso's Guitar of 1912, an array of cut and folded metal sheets that opened to let space in, was the first constructed sculpture in the history of art. It abolished the solidity, the continuous surface that had been, until then, the essential narrative of sculpture. From that unpromising-looking piece of rusty tin, a 60-year tradition of open-form sculpture was born that spread from Russian constructivism to the work of Anthony Caro in England and David Smith...
Unlike an earlier M.I.T. study, Energy: Global Prospects 1985-2000, which was released in 1977 and featured a pessimistic but very accurate appraisal of world petroleum supplies, the coal report is almost uniformly upbeat. It maps out an array of broad new trade patterns likely to emerge between the industrial and developing worlds as coal moves into greater use. International trade in coal, which already exceeds $10 billion annually, should surge by anywhere from ten to 15 times during the next 20 years, with nearly 40% of all coal exports coming from the U.S. Among the major projected customers...
...gangrene set in, the amputation of his left leg. Tito at first appeared to make a strong recovery from these operations, which he had been given only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. In February, however, he suffered a relapse. A "weakening of the heart" was followed by an array of other ailments: kidney failure, liver damage, internal hemorrhaging, pneumonia, infection and high fever. Tito nonetheless managed to hang on, with the help of kidney dialysis, an external pacemaker and an experimental American antibiotic called Moxalactam. Two weeks ago, he sank into a coma that signaled the onset...