Word: gravely
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...most are under 40. There are many references to African tribal art, but they tend to be formal and oblique. What one does not see is the same kind of quotation that artists, generally white, have taken from Africa (or their idea of Africa) since Picasso started using Bakota grave figures in his pre-cubist paintings. Picasso treated African art as raw material and cared nothing about its tribal contexts or religious meanings. As far as he, Matisse and Braque were concerned, it was made by savages: the masks and carvings were emblems of ferocity, a thrilling rupture...
...cancer-ridden Shah, 60, was scheduled to undergo major surgery this week: the removal of an inflamed and enlarged spleen that doctors believe may contain a tumor. The former monarch, whose gall bladder was removed at a New York City hospital last October, suffers from a number of other grave ailments, including anemia, that may be related to B-cell lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system...
...critics, led by the space buffs in the 4,000-member L5* Society respond with a rousing no. The society, which hopes to see a space colony built at L-5 out of lunar materials, views the pact as a grave obstacle to its own visionary goals. Skillfully arguing the group's case is Leigh Ratiner, a veteran Washington lobbyist. He says that the treaty, which was approved by the U.N. General Assembly in December and needs to be signed and ratified by only five countries to become international law, amounts to a "wholesale giveaway of access to vital...
...Harvard Crimson, in its issue of March 17, offered an apology to the Third World community in which, essentially, it refused to apologize. While acknowledging that one blatantly racist act was a "grave mistake," The Crimson denied any systematic racism on its part. Evidently The Crimson is confident that its members are automatically unaffected by the racism which so thoroughly infects American society simply because they desire not to be racist. The Crimson is apparently confusing opposition to the idea of racism with an immunity to racism itself...
...Resolution 465, on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, might not strike the casual reader as an inflammatory document. Yet in the arcane world of diplomacy, its language is unusually severe. It "strongly deplores" the settlements, calls them "a flagrant violation" of the Fourth Geneva Convention and cites "the grave consequences" that this Israeli policy may have on attempts to negotiate a permanent peace in the Middle East. The resolution is also rife with politics-laden buzz words to which Israeli officials and their American-Jewish supporters are particularly sensitive...