Sentences with phrase «tumultuous history of»

In 1997, Abramovic won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for her installation and performance Balkan Baroque, for which she cleaned a pile of cow bones, reflecting on the tumultuous history of the Balkan states, and in particular her native Yugoslavia, which had collapsed in the midst of civil wars in the early 1990s.

Typical, recent examples of his artworks thoughtfully list medium and / or displayed interior contents, as if listed by border security agents: «custom made perspex 1U format box, server PSU & switch, server case fans, AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence, by Daniel Crevier (book), PDLC switchable privacy film, cables, generic unpainted architectural 1:100 scale model figures, dust, sebum [an oily secretion of the sebaceous glands], digital timers, travel power adapter...»

Still, you might want to at least peruse a wiki to get an understanding of the long, tumultuous history of the Tojo Clan.

The Battlefield Heritage Centre traces the long, tumultuous history of the Wars of the Roses and Richard's scheming, allegedly murderous ascension to the throne of England and the events leading up to the final battle that occurred at the site.

As the granddaughter of a black farmer who was forced to leave Mississippi lest he be lynched during the tumultuous history of segregation in the United States, I have to agree with Ann.

- Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana and A World on Fire «A colorful and erudite view on Russia through the tumultuous history of the sumptuous Bolshoi.»

We learned about the tumultuous history of education in the United States and how desegregating schools led to a dramatic loss of Black Teachers.

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Whether he knew the destiny that awaited this boy, the tumultuous history of the land, or was just a crackpot in a cave giving out swords to little boys, is debatable.

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I'm grateful to be active in a time that future scholars will likely regard as one of the most tumultuous and revolutionary in history.

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description A real - life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind - the - scenes, moment - by - moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since...

Jeffrey Immelt received $ 8.11 million in compensation for his final months running General Electric Co., even as the company stumbled through one of the most tumultuous stretches in its 126 - year history.

The next 20 years are going to be some of the most exciting, tumultuous, confusing, difficult, historical, adventurous, pioneering, years ever in the history of the church to pastor a church...

Bob Roberts writes WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO PASTOR IN AMERICA THE NEXT 20 YEARS: The next 20 years are going to be some of the most exciting, tumultuous, confusing, difficult, historical, adventurous, pioneering, years ever in the history of the church to pastor a church... It will take the same things it's always taken -LSB-...]

Because the movement into history has been a tumultuous and even terrifying occurrence for our species, there has always been a strong temptation to return to the womb of nature.

The former hero has had a tumultuous year or so following issues off the pitch and with his fitness levels, but he has history of scoring important goals in this fixture, and he will be desperate to get on and have his say if possible.

But June 8, 2009 will go down as the start of one of the most tumultuous periods in modern state political history: the day two Democratic senators — Pedro Espada Jr. and Hiram Monserrate — defected to the GOP and threw state government into a month of chaos when no bills were considered and nobody really knew who was in charge.

Let's wrap up a tumultuous few days with something a little more enlightening than the average blog post — a Very Serious Look at the secret Pentagon history of using cats in warfare.

The New York City native was at the March of Washington, helped New York City stave off a financial meltdown in the 1970's, represented the owners in the 1994 Major League Baseball strike that led to the only canceled Word Series and was named Lieutenant Governor by David Paterson in 2009 in one of the the most tumultuous times in state history.

A day after the Senate passed one of the latest budgets in modern history, Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson told Liz Benjamin Wednesday to put aside the tumultuous process in passing the spending plan and to focus on the results.

After 14 seasons in charge, arguably the most successful boys basketball coach in Southold's history stepped down following the most tumultuous of those seasons.

He made no mention of political ambition, though his return at a tumultuous moment in Haitian history has fueled speculation about his real intentions.

The architecture, tablets and other artifacts of these cities illustrate a tumultuous history that began more than 5,000 years ago.

This hilarious film is part history lesson, part succession drama, and part comedy of errors set in the upper echelons of the Soviet Communist hierarchy in the tumultuous early 1950s.

The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the violent response of the premiere audience in 1939, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn't reconstructed until 1959.

One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s.

Instead of the touching, subtly humorous look at a conflicted and changing community during an incredibly tumultuous time in American history that this movie could have been, The Help is an over the top, joke of a movie that manages to be both boring and have too much going on.

He was NPR Justice Correspondent for five years during the George W. Bush Administration, covering one of the most tumultuous periods in the Department's history.

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.

Written by Danny Strong (HBO's excellent «Recount» and «Game Change»), «The Butler» cheerfully abandons specific reality, with its main characters — Cecil Gaines (Whitaker), his wife Gloria (Winfrey) and their son Louis (Oyelowo)-- crafted as composites to allow a wide swath of history to fit tidily into one family's tumultuous story.

To see it on the big screen where it belonged, after more than three decades of anticipation, was like seeing it for the very first time and to then get to sit on stage with him afterwards to talk about its tumultuous history only made the night even more memorable.

But even if you weren't aware of the project's tumultuous history, the story's shortcomings would still readily apparent.

Experimenta screened all of them in their original formats, in 16 mm, something that reminds its participants of the significance of celluloid in the tumultuous and ever - secret histories of experimental cinema that often escapes us for the ubiquitous presence of the digital in the regular, standard received festivals that do exist in the international film festival lexicons.

All three, despite their vast differences in texture and tone, present double portraits of troubled men set during a particularly tumultuous time and place in American history.

However, The Age of Rage isn't so much asking the question of how we got here, but instead purely capturing one of the most tumultuous political periods in American history, with an unflinching (somewhat) subjective eye that isn't afraid to get intimate with individuals who possess the most extreme sets of values.

Director Brian Helgeland (A Knight's Tale) does a superb job of recreating this tumultuous and triumphant period in American history.

It seems his research of the South American country's tumultuous history may have led to a protracted pre-production phase as no new details have emerged and Weerasethakul is also unveiling a «sleep cinema» experience at the 2018 Rotterdam Film Festival as well as contributing to the omnibus feature Ten Years Thailand.

In one masterfully conceived shot, Leigh evocatively situates us within the milieu of a Turner canvas, while almost subliminally shading in one of the film's foremost themes: the once celebrated painter's progressive sidelining by the tumultuous forces of 19th - century history as well as the fickle tide of public opinion.

The masterful depiction of this tumultuous era in Irish history makes this series the perfect fit for historical fiction buffs.

In what is certain to be one of the most talked - about fiction debuts of the year, Yasmin Crowther paints a magnificent portrait of betrayal and retribution set against a backdrop of Iran's tumultuous history, dramatic landscapes, and cultural beauty.

- Kirkus «Taylor expands on such previous books as Giles MacDonogh's After the Reich and Perry Biddiscombe's The Denazification of Germany and provides a smoothly written and well - researched history of this tumultuous period in the middle of the 20th - century.»

Between the World and Me is a riveting meditation on the state of race in America that has arrived at a tumultuous moment in America's history of racial strife.

Spanning the tumultuous war years, The Lion in the Lei Shop deftly recaptures a dramatic chapter of American history.

Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican - American experience, and, ultimately, the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss.

Spanning the tumultuous war years, The Lion in the Lei Shop deftly recaptures a dramatic chapter of American history, giving a rarely - heard voice to the women and children of Pearl Harbor.

Surrounding this haunting story is Korea's tumultuous history, including the aftereffects of the Japanese occupation and the Korean War.

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.

Indonesia Map of the Invisible World takes place during a tumultuous time in recent Indonesian history - the post-colonial turmoil that is common when empires finally relinquish territories they've been occupying for centuries.

QUE eReader is one of those devices that had a tumultuous history behind it, announced and then delayed several times only to be canceled, but the company behind it, Plastic Logic, is far from being dead, just announcing they where to open a second manufacturing facility based in Russia.

According to Ben Rabidoux, a correspondent for the Globe and Mail, the next decade will likely be one of the most tumultuous in Canadian real estate history.