Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...necessarily, the subjects of Coles' writing lent themselves to social progress. Concern over Coles' Still Hungry in America directly provoked the food stamp program of the late 1960s...
...further lesson of this show is a fairly depressing one--or could be if you cling to a reflexive belief in the Latest Thing, abetted by the shaky fantasy that there's such a thing as progress in art. Looking back on 1900 from the year 2000, we see a lot of images and objects whose authors were long ago banished from right-thinking, modernist art history--corpses strewn behind the merciless juggernaut of avant-garde "progress." Some of these are stirring, and quite a few are weirdly interesting. Many can be experienced only as camp, raised by the artists...
...something online that doesn't quite live up to your expectations. That's why Mail Boxes Etc., the postal-services chain, is launching Return.com a website designed to make it easier to send back those disappointing products. Return.com will not only expedite the process and track the progress of your package online; if you bought the product from a participating retailer, it will refund your money on the spot, electronically...
Ignore the spin - Bill Clinton's valedictory Moscow summit had all the warmth of a bargaining session between divorce lawyers. He and President Vladimir Putin failed to make any progress on the vexing question of missile defense, and the Russians signaled their displeasure with the U.S. president by failing to broadcast his speech to the Russian legislature on TV. "It was extremely important to the surviving pro-Western elements in Russia's political elite that Clinton get a chance to make the case for liberalization to the Russian public," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "That didn't happen because...
...reached on these issues," National Security Adviser Samuel Berger told CNN on Sunday. Anti-Western sentiment in Russia over NATO and Kosovo has mushroomed in the past few years, and the country is still mired in economic decrepitude despite the IMF's best efforts. Add years of non-progress on arms-control, and Berger may have unwittingly summed up Clinton's Russia legacy as well as anyone. But hey, how 'bout that global economy...