Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carlos in 1973 lasted nine hours. The orchestra call was only for five, and on the dot the players got up and walked out. A pianist picked up where they had left off, and Caldwell went on conducting, barely missing a beat, giving cues right and left to the absent musicians. When the pianist dropped out after two hours, another took over...
...film's central, bickersome relationship is satisfyingly close to what one expects of Wayne and Hepburn. The tremulous self-awareness that has marred some of her recent performances is entirely absent here, and she is the tough-minded, high-spirited Kate of blessed memory. And the Duke, too, is his old self-the slackness engendered by a succession of dismal late films banished. In short, they are good for each other and fun to watch...
Hershey said the absent employees would "probably get docked a day's pay, or take one of three 'floating holidays' allowed to employees," and added that she expected the administration to take no disciplinary action...
...death penalty, with no right of appeal. The cases had been shifted from civilian courts to military courts, which gave little consideration to the defense. Additionally, I think there is a high probability that torture was used in these cases. In an atmosphere of police vengeance, with legal safeguards absent, it is wrong to presume the guilt of the five executed...
...faceless bureaucrats. If Marx taught us anything, it was that freedom cannot be conferred from above--people must have the opportunity to organize their own lives and discover their own dignity and worth. Frederick Wiseman's recent documentary, Welfare, made it amply clear that both freedom and dignity are absent in the current welfare system...