Sentences with phrase «of emigre»

He came under the influence of the emigre surrealists Joan Miro and Surrealist Andre Masson (1896 - 1987), and his themes became more personal and his abstract imagery more organic.

«The Brighton beach and Sheepshead Bay sections of Brooklyn have been headquarters for a smattering of emigre Russian crime gangs since the 1970s,» wrote Sewlyn Raab, an expert in organized crime, for the New York Times in 1994.

For the former, see various decrees on the confiscation of the property of emigres from the Bolshevik controlled geographic Soviets.

Developer Quintet played to its strengths with ActRaiser; the studio had come into existence as a coalition of emigres from action - RPG pioneer Nihon Falcom, and for the studio's debut project they drew on their experience with simple but effective role - playing elements as a way to bind everything together.

Not exact matches

«The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 spawned thousands of powerful crime gangs — collectively known as the Russian mafia — and some of these groups, officials warn, are establishing bases among emigre communities in the United States, particularly in South Brooklyn.»

Palmeiro says he also leaned on the lessons he learned from his demanding father, Jose, a Cuban emigre who moved his family of five from Havana to Miami in 1971, when Rafael was seven, and later whip - cracked Rafael through the after - school workouts that produced his sweet swing and self - punishing mind - set.

The FCO has a great opportunity in London, which is just about the capital of world dissidents, to engage with emigres and learn from them what we can't find out on the ground.

Fursenko also set up a system of multimillion dollar competitive grants to attract foreign researchers and emigres to come to Russian universities and set up labs there.

It is less interested in, but doesn't abandon completely, the more conventional thriller hugger - mugger, following the mysterious - assassin pattern, also finding time to stalk various murderous ploys and counterploys in a riven emigre community even while the dangerous arrival of the political leader to the U.N. draws closer and closer.

The total is about two thirds of «Spotlight» so far, but this Irish emigre tale (which has expanded more slowly) is close to even with the latter film.

Unlike many of the directors on this list, German emigre Ernest Lubitsch was one of the great film artists who was recognized in his time.

Suburban districts also serve plenty of poor families, especially Latino emigres and other first - generation Americans toiling for their piece of the streets of gold.

Deporting these undocumented emigres also means breaking up families, putting those children into child welfare systems incapable of providing them with opportunities for brighter futures.

Given the allegations of abuse against undocumented emigres by ICE officials and operators of jails under its watch, these children and young adults are also likely to be beaten, tortured and harmed.

The reality is that Trump, whose successful campaign has been based on accusing undocumented immigrants (especially Latino emigres) of being «rapists» and «bad hombres», is engaged in a low - grade form of ethnic cleansing.

As most Dropout Nation readers already know, the President - Elect, who won his office on a campaign of race - baiting as well as rank demagoguery against both documented and undocumented emigres, named Bannon, his former campaign manager and the former boss of media outlet Breitbart News Network, to serve as his senior counselor and top strategic adviser.

They are far too busy battling with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over a version of a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that leaves out a poison pill kiboshing the Obama Administration's executive order temporarily staying deportation for five million undocumented emigres.

The all - American Pollock in de Kooning's phrase «broke the ice for all of us», blazed briefly, and burnt out; the Russian emigre Mark Rothko became boxed in by an introverted abstract style.

He had been a founding member of the short lived but influential Dublin based White Stag Group, a collection of like - minded artists and musicians including the British emigres Neville Johnson and Stephen Gilbert.

A site - specific visual environment created in the first floor gallery incorporates the personal narratives of recent emigres from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bhutan, Iraq and Cuba to create a positive, public dialogue about community, similar to the artists» previous projects in Armenia, Republic of Georgia and Romania.

A condensation of the earlier part of the tape includes the information that she was not a member of The Club, had not met the emigres from Europe after the war, had not known de Kooning and the other abstract expressionists, had not been influenced by them, but was very much aware of what was going on in the group around Art News.

But emigre that he was, with a Northern sense of colour and ironic view of life perhaps inherited from his homeland, de Kooning brought a New World brash sensitivity to bear on his personal development from Picasso and Soutine, and perfected a richly hectic sense of colour that does a great deal to accelerate and to assuage the rush to our nerve - endings that the finest painting by de Kooning always detonates.

Particularly intriguing is the possibility that Mr. Katz's use of expanses of saturated color reflects not only the influence of Abstract Expressionism, the prevailing style when he was coming of age as an artist in New York City in the early 1950's, but also the impact of his parents, bohemian Russian emigres who tended to paint the rooms of their Sheepshead Bay home in Brooklyn in strange, intense colors and unusual patterns.

Alternatively, he may have heard of experiments conducted in New York during the war, by the emigre surrealist artist Max Ernst (1891 - 1976), who married Peggy Guggenheim, one of Pollock's most important patrons.

Another possibility is that Pollock heard of experiments conducted in New York during the war, by the emigre surrealist artist Max Ernst (1891 - 1976), who married Peggy Guggenheim, one of Pollock's most important patrons.