Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Pepper's relatively painless practice on Thursday bodes well for the remainder of the season. Pepper is probable for today's contest and will aim to be an active part of the Crimson contingent in the rest of the tournament games...
...former University of Iowa drama teacher, John Bergman, 40. Since 1980 the actors have been crisscrossing the country in a rickety red-and-white bus, playing in penitentiaries and juvenile-detention centers, holding theatrical workshops and performing their largely improvised plays about prison life. One aim is to force prisoners to admit to themselves that criminal behavior is stupid and ugly. "Our work is no more than 20th century versions of medieval folk tales," says the British-born Bergman, a voluble, witty man who smokes incessantly and is forever running his hand through his tangled, shoulder- length hair...
They come with hopes of learning about U.S. life and culture. They come with the aim of providing child care for American families. What tens of thousands of European nannies fail to come with, however, is proper work papers. Since Congress passed a new immigration bill last year, the flood of foreigners who enter the U.S. on tourist visas and then work illegally as live-in baby- sitters has slowed down. Immigration officials are conducting spot checks on the baggage of young female tourists for letters from families offering them work. If any such evidence is found, the would...
Petric said Imamura's films "aim in cinema toreflect the mentality of the Japanese people,"adding that Imamura's focus on his native culturehas contributed to his fame as a director. Petricsaid Imamura is "the most important director inJapanese cinema, together with [Akira] Kurowsawa."Kurowsawa's most recent film...
...Beach and Forsyth County. There has been a dramatic increase of racist violence on college campuses, including elite colleges like the University of Chicago, Columbia, Tufts and Harvard. Taking a cue from the Klan-endorsed president in the White House and the Dixiecrats in Congress, racist punks have taken aim at minority and gay students. As Ms. Armstrong and Ms. Braxton wrote, "For many Black students at Harvard, every day involves a test of one's tolerance of racial harassment, from the Black male who must constantly produce his bursar's card for the HUPD, to the Black female...