Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...touchy about its lack of literacy; someone must have wanted to stress that American artists can write. Besides, elitism is an extremely dirty word in art circles these days, and whatever else she may be, Holzer is no elitist. Her work is so faultlessly, limpidly pedestrian as to make no demands of any sort on the viewer, beyond the slight eyestrain induced by the LEDs...
...Brandt was a stump speaker and nostalgia figure at campaign rallies. His Social Democrats lost because the people of the G.D.R. have had their fill of anything that even sounds socialist. But they still owe much to the author of Ostpolitik. What Willy Brandt did two decades ago helped make it possible for them to elect a unity Chancellor this year...
Heavy metal, make way for the family hour. From high atop a Houston skyscraper, Hit Video USA is beaming 10 hours of G-rated music videos daily to 57 TV stations. The 4 1/2-year-old venture, which screens out obscenity and lewdness, is establishing its niche in a booming business...
...some $8.4 billion in outstanding loans to less developed countries, or LDCs. Since 1987 Citi has been forced to write off or set aside reserves of $4 billion to cover bad LDC loans. Last year its net earnings plunged by 73%, to $498 million, partly because Brazil failed to make a $250 million interest payment...
...wanted German investment and that this "did not necessarily equate to subjugation." The Powell memo alleged that "abiding" characteristics of the Germans, "in alphabetical order," included "aggressiveness, assertiveness, bullying, egotism, inferiority complex, sentimentality." The concept of permanent national character is generally fatuous, and in this case Powell's words make a poor fit for Kohl, the biggest German of them all. Kohl can be intimidating because of his size (6 ft. 3 in.) and might sometimes appear aggressive, but no more so than Thatcher. If he now looks assertive, it is only in contrast to the penitent posture Germany adopted...