Word: historicization
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Seductive and streamlined, painted with a pastel palette of flamingo pinks, pale yellows and cool blues, the tropical art deco buildings of Miami Beach delight the eye and invite the viewer to contemplate a jazzier age, a futuristic past. For years, preservationists fought developers who thought it necessary to demolish...
A Swan Lake that is set indoors. A ballet version of Henry James' Washington Square, featuring, among many other intrusions, cartoon black minstrels and cowboys. Not what one might at first expect from so historic an institution as the Paris Opera Ballet, but both items came along on the troupe...
A decade ago, Eurocommunism seemed an idea whose time had come. A new breed of Mediterranean Marxists preached a brand of Communism that renounced revolution, espoused democracy and rejected Soviet domination. Politicians of both the right and left fretted that Eurocommunism was about to transform the political scene. Western observers...
But for most farmers, the problem is a lack of customers. Foreign sales of U.S. farm products have faltered because dozens of countries from Brazil to China have become more self-sufficient, while heavily indebted Third World nations lack the money to buy significant imports. This year total U.S. farm...
At 7 p.m., the escapade entered an even more surreal phase. Holding a decidedly impromptu press conference on the steps in the lobby, Tolentino began naming the members of his Cabinet, among them, none other than Juan Ponce Enrile, who would remain as Defense Minister. Meanwhile, the gate- crashers continued...