Word: anas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Santa Ana Register, a conservative daily in California's Orange County, caused quite a stir last month. It reported that federal investigators were looking into whether President Nixon had used as much as $1,000,000 in unreported 1968 campaign contributions to buy his opulent San Clemente estate. The White House instantly denounced the report as "totally unfounded" and promised to supply a full explanation within 24 hours...
...learning the Mendelssohn concerto, her teacher ruled that she was not ready to master the ricochet technique (bouncing the bow on the strings) required in the work. Her parents decided otherwise. "Dylana knew from listening to records of the concerto what was right and wrong," says her mother Ana, a former schoolteacher who takes care of Dylana, Brother Kevan, 14, Sister Vicky, 13, and Brother Ivan, 10, who is coming along nicely as a sculptor. The Jensens bought several books on violin technique, went to work with Dylana, and by the following week's lesson she was ricocheting like...
...play, since it has only a tenuous connection with the rest of the larger work and lasts two hours all by itself. It is a dream sequence set in hell, with four characters out of the legend made famous by Moliere and Mozart: Don Juan; Dona Ana, whose virtue he attempted to assault; the Commendatore, her father, slain by the archseducer; and the devil. In all of English drama, there is no more dazzlingly sustained discussion of ideas in dialogue. The words sing, the ideas go off like fireworks. It is like a great parliamentary debate in which the members...
...devil, Edward Mulhare is an urbane charmer, and Paul Henreid's Commendatore and Agnes Moore-head's Dona Ana are all that could be asked. In the title role, Ricardo Montalban is superb, no libertine at all, but Shaw incarnate, with his puritan passion for exposing hypocrisy and cant. If all our minds are freer of the pollution of smug platitudes, it is because Shaw, with his Jovian laughter, helped to clear them. -T.E.Kalem
...dust and would explode in flames, the fires often raging for days; in winter, rain came in torrents, churning the canyons into rivers of mud and washing whole hillsides into the sea. The threat of earthquake was constant and no one knew when the killer wind, the Santa Ana, would blow up over the hills, scraping the sky a raw blue, killing the mind, heating the blood...