Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...objects in the left foreground melons, as some think, or the backsides of Muslims praying to Mecca? -- combine in a pictorial structure of wonderful explicitness and rigor. One sees in the work painters who would not be born for another 20 or 30 years: Frank Stella, Sean Scully. Clearly, though Matisse left Morocco, Morocco never left...
...arrival in New York, De Klerk made good on his promise to revoke the Separate Amenities Act that for nearly four decades had legalized segregation. The South African Parliament repealed the law, opening the country's parks, beaches, swimming pools, services and public buildings to the black majority. Though they fail to undo the main structures of apartheid, the reforms are plainly more than mere window dressing...
...Mandela to be shot by a sniper at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport when he returned to South Africa on July 18. The Afrikaner group also allegedly planned to blow up power stations, assassinate Members of Parliament and poison the water supply to the black township of Soweto. Though the South African government did confirm that it had arrested eleven whites, it would say only that they were released after questioning...
...treating Church teaching on ^ abortion with contempt," wrote O'Connor, "but helping to multiply abortions by advocating legislation supporting abortion, or by making public funds available for abortion, bishops may decide that, for the common good, such Catholics must be warned that they are at risk of excommunication." Though the Cardinal emphasized that he was not writing on behalf of the U.S. episcopate, his words will inevitably have nationwide impact, and could fuel a backlash against church incursions into politics...
...publicly applying the penalty to politicians who vote pro-choice or favor abortion funding. Father James Provost of the Catholic University of America says that a bishop could theoretically take such action under catchall canon-law provisions concerning errant church members, but he says such instances are "very rare." Though there was speculation that O'Connor would not have issued such a sweeping statement without tacit Vatican approval, Rome has no public policy on pro- choice politicians. Indeed, the church has tended to play down excommunication since the Second Vatican Council...