Word: actes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source close to the police said yesterday investigators are trying to determine whether the fire was a serious attempt to burn down the building and harm Bok or merely a symbolic act by a group upset with something Bok or the Corporation has done...
...resulting reaction by Iranians should not be looked at as an isolated act, but in the context of American involvment in Iranian politics. Resorting to international law to protest such reaction seems unbecoming of a power who in retrospect has broken international law so often in overthrowing popularly-elected governments abroad...
There's no way enough can be said about a penalty-killing act that, forced into action five times--twice with two men down--yields not a single goal. And this, against the vaunted Terrier power play...
...Act two brings more of the same, except it's shorter. The Commissioner (Charles Mills) delivers his lines with the humdrum tedium nearly everyone else seems to have mastered, and his squadron of guards whisper to each other every time they're supposed to move three steps to the right or left. In fact, nearly all the blocking in the play consists of simple pacing up and down the stage. Two steps to the left, deliver a line, four steps to the right, deliver another line, and poof--instant play...
Even Playskool, which once made toys for liberals, has gotten into the act. "Star Rider" has "all the controls and special effects necessary for trips to distant galaxies." When it turns out that all that seperates you and distant galaxies is three different kinds of sirens on a plastic dashboard, you feel almost cowardly not to plunk down...