Sentences with phrase «bicentennial year»

He also copped abuse, discrimination and assault «for the colour of my skin», including being allegedly bashed by police on Smith Street in Fitzroy for wearing an Aboriginal T - shirt in 1988, the Bicentennial year.

Another historic protest was held in 1988 — on the bicentennial year of the arrival of the First Fleet — when 40,000 people participated in an «Invasion Day» march to raise awareness that «white Australia has a black history».

In 1976 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened Two Centuries of Black American Art as its major exhibition for the American bicentennial year.

The Romantic portrait of a divinely inspired genius, unrecognized in his time but composing for posterity, has given way to an emphasis on his pragmatic craftsmanship; the fact, reiterated constantly through the bicentennial year, that Mozart wrote music only for specific purposes.

Just for perspective, a few cool things happened in 1976: it was USA's bicentennial year (that's 200 years old!)

It's an acknowledged classic now, but this fourth feature from director Martin Scorsese and the third produced screenplay from critic turned master screenwriter Paul Schrader was as controversial in the bicentennial year of 1976 as successful movies get.

Who, what, when: In America's bicentennial year of 1976, somehow a 47 - year - old Italian art - house auteur with a penchant for flashy white - rimmed eyeglasses and on - screen gender clashes involving sex and politics, was lauded for her World War II concentration - camp picaresque «Seven Beauties.»

Back in 1976, our bicentennial year, the nation yearned for a red, white and blue plate special piled high with corn.

All the President's Men was released less than two years after Nixon resigned (and in America's bicentennial year, no less), and there are moments in the film that seem all too aware of the scandal's outcome by evincing a flagrant self - congratulatory spirit.

Released in the Bicentennial year, after Vietnam, Watergate, and attention - getting attempts on President Ford's life, Taxi Driver's intense portrait of a man and a society unhinged spoke resonantly to the mid -»70s audience — too resonantly in the case of attempted Reagan assassin and Foster fan John W. Hinckley.

Nineteen seventy - six is the Bicentennial year, and everyone with a game to sell is heading for Philadelphia to ring the Liberty Bell.

In a revolutionary finish in the bicentennial year, Greg LeMond of Wayzata, Minn., stormed into Paris on Sunday afternoon and snatched the Tour de France from the French pretender.

Founded in America's Great Bicentennial Year of 1976 in Boulder, Colo., by Frank Day, Old Chicago established one of the first loyalty programs in the bar business — the World Beer Tour.

We might have hoped that a political campaign for the presidency in that bicentennial year or the recent 1980 campaign would have been educative in the high republican sense of the term.

One could travel in this bicentennial year to a thousand American communities, and in each of them see instances of human tragedy directly based upon failures of justice and the breakdown of moral ideas — this in the face of operative legal systems.

One little - noted fact in this bicentennial year is that our country, which was born in revolution, has been opposed to all recent revolutions and in most cases has tried to undermine them.

Not exact matches

Legendary retailer Macy's is a mere 12 years from celebrating the bicentennial of its founding and six years from celebrating the 100th anniversary of its famous Thanksgiving Day Parade — originally known as the Christmas Parade — in New York City.

The city was going to use the money for a bicentennial celebration next year.

The test of vigilance which faces the American public comes in the year of our bicentennial when most of all we should, in the words of Tom Paine, «refresh our patriotism by reference to first principles.»

In 1973 I gave the lectures (at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati) that would be published as The Broken Covenant in 1975, and would in turn project me into an intensive year of public speaking during the 1976 Bicentennial.

In describing the situation in America, John Carroll, the first bishop of Baltimore, the bicentennial of whose episcopal election and consecration is also observed this year, told Rome that «our Religious system has undergone a revolution... more extraordinary, than our political one.»

For American Catholics, 1989 is a year crowded with anniversaries, including the centennial of the founding of the Catholic University of America and the bicentennial of both the establishment of Georgetown University (and, by extension, of Jesuit education) and the erection of the American hierarchy.

In the case of the national bicentennial four years ago, Americans did not lack resources; there were libraries full of national histories which aimed at covering the whole sweep as well as monographs which touched on nuances, cornices and curlicues of American existence.

Michigan will wear a new all - maize uniform in celebration of the University of Michigan Bicentennial and in honor of the 150 - year anniversary of the school's official colors: maize and blue.

Along with being the Bicentennial,»76 is also an Olympic year, so the NCAA should reserve space at courtside for the KGB scouts next March.

Arlington Heights» Bicentennial Celebration, «Festival «76», was held at Recreation Park and each year since then, an annual Fourth of July «Frontier Days Festival» has been held at Recreation Park.

And the concept takes her back to 1976, when she was ten years old and the Freedom Train came to town to celebrate the nation's bicentennial.

The Town of Royalton is celebrating its 200th anniversary and Bieber said she will continue her work as a member of the town's Bicentennial Committee, which is organizing many events throughout the year.

Ralph also got honor from French Government in 2010, by getting Legion d'honneur award and in year 2014 Ralph got James Smithson Bicentennial Medal.

His overly cautious approach to this material, together with his unremarkable camera work, is a depressing foreshadowing of his work in the ensuing years, whether on the first two Harry Potter films, the first Percy Jackson film, or perhaps most criminally Bicentennial Man.

This resulted in a couple of bona fide hits, notably Keith Carradine's «I'm Easy» and «It Don't Worry Me,» while all the other songs have an equally authentic air, even the ludicrous «I Never Get Enough» (performed though not written by Gwen Welles) and «200 Years,» a hilarious would - be patriotic Bicentennial tribute to America performed and co-written by Henry Gibson.

The scene dissolves, with a militaristic soundtrack leading the way, to the interior of a country - western recording studio, where Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson) is in a recording session in a sound booth, wearing microphones over his toupee while singing a doom - and - gloom, solemn, mock - patriotic, jingoistic, Bicentennial song: «200 Years.»

Years pass, and Henry Crawford (Alessandro Nivola, The Best Laid Plans, Face / Off) and his sister Mary (Embeth Davidtz, Bicentennial Man, Fallen) move onto the estate.

An Active Role for the Divinity School (Harvard Gazette) Harvard Divinity School Concludes Year - Long Bicentennial Celebration (The Harvard Crimson) Dean James Ryan participated in bicentennial events at Harvard Divinity School, where he discussed how service is fundamental to the HBicentennial Celebration (The Harvard Crimson) Dean James Ryan participated in bicentennial events at Harvard Divinity School, where he discussed how service is fundamental to the Hbicentennial events at Harvard Divinity School, where he discussed how service is fundamental to the HGSE mission.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is marking the approach of the U.S. Constitution's bicentennial with a program that will offer young scholars the opportunity to conduct research or undertake a writing project on the 198 - year - old document.

The current 1.873 - mile, 11 - turn circuit, winding through bayfront Bicentennial Park and along a portion of Biscayne Boulevard, was built in 1986 - the fourth year of the International Motor Sports Association Camel GT sports car event.

It was our country's bicentennial, Jimmy Carter was elected president, «Rocky» was the big movie that year and Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci attained the first - ever perfect scores in Olympic gymnastics.

A murderer's tale of redemption Though published in the year of Haiti's bicentennial, Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker is certainly not a celebratory book.

America 1976 traveling exhibition United States Department of the Interior Bicentennial Washington, D.C. American Prints: 1913 - 1963 travelling exhibition The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY New England Works on Paper Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA 30 Years of American Printmaking The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY The Figurative Tradition: Nine Artists and Their Prints Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, MA

Furthermore, it is important to keep in mind that Warhol produced these hammer and sickle (and the American Indian) paintings in 1976, the year of the Bicentennial.

It is part of the Institute for the Humanities» Year of Archives and Futures and organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

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Afraid that the American Bicentennial would omit the voices of contemporary African Americans, Andrews decided to create his own vision of America, producing one major, monumental work per year leading up to the 1976 Bicentennial.

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1970 - 1976 continued Between 1970 - 1975, Andrews creates his Bicentennial Series, a six - year cycle in which each year is dedicated to the production of one monumental painting.

And he basically expressed those views some 40 years ago in six fantastically caustic groups of paintings and drawings called «The Bicentennial Series,»... Truly art for now.»

«200 Years Städel», the bicentennial celebrations of Frankfurt's Städel Museum, culminated with a solo exhibition of works by the internationally renowned American artist John Baldessari.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 200 Years of American Sculpture: Bicentennial Exhibition, 1976.

And in a sense he expressed those perspectives some 40 years ago in six thematic groups of impassioned works that he titled «The Bicentennial Series,» selections from which are on view together, for the first time, at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.

Joshua Kosman looks at two other important artists - composers Schumann and Chopin, whose bicentennials are being recognized this year (Page 20).