Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Koran school. Fashionably oversize sunglasses are worn by women in purdah while their denimed daughters in platform shoes kick up the dust in the streets of Istiqlal, the capital. Down in the slums the click of cal abashes and the muezzin's call to prayer compete with an alien rhythm, "with words, repeated in the tireless ecstasy of religious chant, that seemed to say. Chuff, chuff/ do it to me, baby,/ do it, do it,/ Momma don't mind what Daddy...
Some people feel that this has led to a softening of Brustein's intellectual standards. When most conservative critics attacked, for example, Peter Brook's cold, bleak Endgame version of King Lear or his violent Midsummer Night's Dream for imposing alien concepts on the original plays, Brustein hailed them as valuable new perspectives on great works. "Bob is very tolerant toward a real effort on somebody's part to do something," says Epstein. "Even if he disagrees, he'd rather see that than see someone dead from the neck up." Brustein, in fact, has frequently stated that theater should...
...them from the boys who make up the adult male population, I suppose). The first two fight the new boy off, threatening to hit him with an empty bottle over five cents. I am told not to intervene: they are blacks first, not children fighting, and I am an alien white. When we return to the car, there are only two boys polishing the window, desperately...
...generally excellent article on Hispanics in America [Oct. 16] was marred by an error that I must attempt to correct or my family would never forgive me. You have wronged my grandfather, who was not an illegal alien as you stated. He came to the U.S. legally in 1880, and settled in Brownsville, Texas, where he became a citizen of the state and the nation under the laws then in effect...
...Marriage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. For the occasion the Guthrie imported Russian Director Anatoli Efros to stage the play, and his work is a marvel. Communicating through interpreters, he seems to have established an intuitive rapport with the cast. The actors get under the skin of an alien culture and, with seamless ensemble work, translate Russian characters and responses in supple body English...