Sentences with phrase «tumultuous decade»

In it, she tackled eight tumultuous decades of U.S. political and social history — and changing fashions — filled with dozens of national figures (including LBJ, JFK and Jackie O) and had to factor in an equally daunting number of celebrities in the cast: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Oprah Winfrey and, of course, Forest Whitaker in the lead role, among them.

Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors.

Neel's oeuvre is fascinating on two counts: not only was she an incredibly gifted painter, but also an astute and idiosyncratic chronicler of some of the most tumultuous decades in American history.

After a lengthy and tumultuous decade plus of development and creative shake - ups, Marvel's Ant - Man is finally upon us.

Often ambitious in scale and experimental in nature, this work reflects the unprecedented changes in China's economic, social and cultural life over the past tumultuous decade.

I think McKibben had it about right when he said the best place to be in the coming tumultuous decades is anywhere where there is a strong, mutually supportive, resilient community (or something like that).

«After a tumultuous decade, the economy is now close to full employment and price stability.

Instead, we failed to make our millions quickly and experienced a tumultuous decade for stocks.

It was a surreal election that topped off a tumultuous decade in Alberta politics.

After a tumultuous decade, Music City isn't just leaning on country music, if Kings of Leon, Paramore and Jack White are any indication.

After a tumultuous decade of desperation and prosperity, the U.S. auto market of 2017 bears only a passing resemblance to the one that preceded the Great Recession.

And yet, as recent white paper from Vanguard shows, that simple 50/50 portfolio would have served investors extremely well — not just over the last 20 years, but during nine tumultuous decades.

After a tumultuous decade of trying not to euthanize any of its unwanted pets, Los Angeles has finally set a record for the fewest number of dogs and cats put down.

Inspired by his memory of living near the river in Shanghai, Nature C was part of Zhang's four Nature works that were first presented in his solo exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum in 1987, a tumultuous decade for artists in China and pivotal for Zhang in particular.

Created in 1987 in Shanghai, a tumultuous decade for artists in China and pivotal for Zhang in particular, Nature C is one of only four four - panel Nature works that were first presented in his solo exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum in 1987.

Surveyed together, the idioms of this tumultuous decade map a complex terrain of divergent aesthetic and philosophical theories, while charting the destabilising events at the brink of a new century.

Its split structure might symbolise the schools of painting, sculpture and architecture that Belling sought to unify — or foreshadow his work's disjointed reception in the tumultuous decades that followed its creation.

Focusing on California artists working in the»60s (even as students on campus protested the Vietnam War or caught a Jefferson Airplane show on the lawn), this exhibition of works from the collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson shows the creative diversity that emerged during that tumultuous decade.

For a select group of artists living and working in New York during that tumultuous decade — among them Richard Prince, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Willem de Kooning and Jeff Koons — the city streets proved a hotbed of creativity and their work flourished amid its vibrant landscape.