Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...free society," wrote the President's wife. "It is wonderful to see Americans joining with the new democracies of our world to help educate people with the perspective satiric art can give." To be sure, the festival's artists ridiculed the communist system, but their works might make the First Lady's hair stand on end. Many of them, on display until Oct. 23, are scatological in nature; others are bitterly antireligious. Among the entries: a Soviet sketch featuring a man nailing himself to a cross and a Norwegian caricature of the Pope wearing a condom on his head...
...revenue, the S&Ls saw their profits erode. Under constant pressure from thrift lobbyists, the old rules were felled one by one: in 1980 federal deposit insurance was increased from $40,000 to $100,000, money brokers were allowed to bundle massive deposits and thrifts were freed to make commercial loans...
...look for detail? But there was no detail, or not much. The sculptures were sitting in your space. So might you stand back and take in the general effect? But there was no general effect: the pieces were too small to produce one. Shapiro's little sculptures conspired to make you feel you were looking down the wrong end of a telescope at something right next to you, seeing it very sharply, very densely and puzzlingly far away...
...work underscores the central oddity, and the source of originality, in Shapiro's art: his desire to use a style derived from "radical" modernism to make credible images of the body. Minimalism didn't want the figure. It hated the idea of the totem. It despised any kind of liveliness. It wanted to be its chilled, nonreferential self: a box, a row of bricks on the floor...
Iraqi missiles would not have to blow up many of the oil facilities; scattering enough poison gas and anthrax or botulism powder to make it impossible for workers to labor there would also disrupt production. Says a U.S. analyst: "With a shortfall of only 1 million bbl. of oil a day, now the price has gone to $35 ((from $18 before the invasion of Kuwait)). Imagine the impact of the loss of a big portion of Saudi Arabia's 7 million bbl. a day." Conceivably, the price could reach as high as $100, far more than enough to cause both...