Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show up. That left his wife and five friends holding a verv empty bag. They have guaranteed Cleaver's $50,000 bail, and unless he emerges within six months, the money will be forfeited. As the FBI continued its search for Cleaver, the Internal Revenue Service entered the act. The IRS filed a $59,715.12 lien against him for unpaid taxes on royalties from his book, Soul on Ice, and lecture fees...
...everything was left to the operagoer's imagination. The three little boys who act as Tamino's guardian angels arrived and departed in a dirigible. Occasionally, Ustinov indulged in his love of sight gags, and not always to good effect; there were some murmurs from the audience when Papageno made his first entrance from the prompter's box. But Heinz Joachim in Die Welt summed up the critics' response: "At long last the Hamburg State Opera has cleaned out both the antiquated conceptions and modern profundity that block the view of Mozart's Magic Flute...
...championship bout in this century. Five years later, Johnson, broke and living in Paris, sold a "confession" to a magazine in which he claimed that he had thrown the fight for $50,000 and the promise of leniency from the U.S., where he was wanted for violating the Mann Act. Willard's reaction: "If Johnson throwed the fight, I wished he throwed it sooner. It was hotter than hell down there...
Transparent Cape. Was Kelley's act a dance-much less art? She appeared on the stage wearing tights and a transparent cape, which she swiftly discarded. To be sure, she moved with music, including such tunes as The Swim and Walking the Dog. Reluctant to act as dance critics, the court majority said that any dance is automatically entitled to First Amendment protection unless the state can prove that it is obscene. Relying on U.S. Supreme Court doctrine, the California justices declared that the state had the burden of proving that the dominant theme of Kelley's dance...
...Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that the assumption underlying The Pornography of Power is most readily grasped. Of Stevenson's portrayal of the ambivalence of human nature, Rubinoff writes: "Dr. Jekyll, the humanist, originally creates Mr. Hyde (in itself a thoroughly evil act) so that the forces of evil incarnated in a Hyde can be scientifically studied and eventually banished from the human psyche. So confident is Jekyll in the iron strength of his own virtue that he sincerely believes he can give birth to evil without being corrupted by it. Alas, the virtuous...