Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adjusting the levers on his four-track console, Jamaican Record Producer Lee Perry does absent-minded dance steps on a patchwork carpet composed of Ethiopia's national colors. On the studio side of the control booth's soundproof window, a singer implores "Jah," the black god who many Jamaicans believe was Haile Selassie, to deliver him from Babylon. Seated on the floor are half a dozen musicians whose hair is plaited into myriad ominous, serpentine "dreadlocks." Each man reverently smokes a large, cone-shaped "splif" filled with marijuana, and all nod agreeably whenever the singer alludes to Africa...
...talent was not lacking: Anyone who saw the action will tell you that Harvard skated circles around the visitors for the better part of two and a half periods. Nor was the desire absent, as the Crimson showed from the start that it knew how much it meant to win the game. So what happened, specifically what happened in the last ten minutes...
...used to be, until three years ago, that there was an elaborate system for calling students who were in danger of sleeping through their exams. There were special phone banks set up in exam rooms, and if a student was absent at the start of his exam a call would go out to someone in his House office, who would in turn call the student. The system was expensive, one of the little luxuries of life at Harvard, and it only affected three or four people every exam period. When the recession came, the wake-up network went...
Washington insists that it can best achieve a Middle East peace by being a "mediator" and not-as one senior U.S. official puts it-"a lawyer for the Israelis." But with Israel absent from the debate, the U.S. may find itself obliged to become the primary spokesman for Israeli interests. "Our role is made more difficult by the Israeli boycott," admitted a State Department official...
...Glass Menagerie is Williams' portrait of the artist as a young man. It is a family play, and as almost everyone learns sooner or later, home means both heart and hurt. In the home of the Wingfields, modeled on Williams' own, there is the memory of the absent father, the telephone-company man who "fell in love with long distance." The suffocating mother, Amanda, uses up all the oxygen in any room she enters. The crippled sister, Laura, is as fragile as her tiny glass animals, and the task of the artist-to-be, Tom, is to break...