Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...house was comfortable but hardly posh. A white-coated butler floated silently into and out of the various rooms where we talked throughout the afternoon and evening, offering water, beer, coffee, soda. As a moonfaced secretary transcribed our formal interview, Rodriguez picked his words carefully, frequently consulting and reciting verbatim from typewritten notes...
LIUBOV POPOVA RETROSPECTIVE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Though she died at 35 in 1924, Popova is considered one of the leading artists of the Russian avant-garde. She was a determined painter with a passionate sense of the edge where formal research bursts into sparks and arpeggios of lyric feeling. June 23 through...
...south, Armenia has scheduled a referendum on independence for Sept. 21, the first step in the five-year process decreed by Moscow for formal secession. Meanwhile, though torn by violent ethnic clashes, Armenia is actually carrying out one of the reforms proposed by Yeltsin. The republic has sold 65% of its agricultural land to private farmers. Georgia and Moldavia have been too preoccupied by their own ethnic conflicts to do much in the way of economic reform, but they have made it clear that they also want out of the Union -- and in a lot less than five years...
After months of trying to wangle an invitation and finally demanding one, Gorbachev will be asked to address the summit of the Group of Seven after its formal sessions wind up on July 17. The U.S. and Britain, the host country this year, had been reluctant to invite Gorbachev because they did not want to raise his expectations for aid. As Gorbachev said in Oslo, he thinks he is "entitled to expect large-scale support" to ensure perestroika's success. But, said British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, "I am sure Mr. Gorbachev is not expecting to find a check under...
...time to research for days, a time to sit down the night before and crank that baby out. A time to embrace, and a time to go to the formal as friends...