Word: bali
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOOSE ENDS At Circle in the Square, Paul and Susan fall in love on the beach in Bali. A peace corps volunteer who has spent two years teaching natives to build latrines, Paul wants to go home to a real job: teaching English at a Philadelphia private school. Susan, a young adventuress, breathlessly announces in a raspberry voice that she and the world have not yet been properly introduced. And so they part, this tall, dark scholar and this manic urchin...
...final scene, both realize the mysterious potency of this enigmatic decade. Susan buttons into her designer suit, the one with the tweed shirt, that reaches just to the top of her boots. She dashes on bold lipstick, a bottled scent, and jewelry she would have laughed at on that Bali beach. She smiles, says goodbye, calls Paul "Babe" one final time and exits to join her new lover for dinner. The decade has killed marriage, turned romance into a business and banished communication between lovers from the bedroom...
...double, to 14,000 a month, the number of Indo-chinese refugees it will admit as permanent immigrants. The United Nations is making plans for an international refugee conference, to be held in Geneva in mid-July. At week's end Secretary of State Cyrus Vance flew to Bali, along with the Foreign Ministers of Japan, Australia and New Zealand, to discuss the refugee problem with representatives of the countries that have had to deal with it firsthand-the ASEAN (for Association of Southeast Asian Nations) states of Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines...
...escape the abstractions of their art--plain costumes and stark white faces--to combine international and dramatic traditions in Mudhead Masks. Exploring the concept of the clown, the skits will draw from the traditions of classical mime, commedia dell'arte, and masked theater. Masks, carved by village craftsmen in Bali, are astonishing, capturing the essense of frog or the vitality of laughter. The Mudheads, Pueblo Indian clowns in the American southwest, contribute a name and a philosophy, that clowning can be both a communal and a moral experience. The performers, both graduates from the School of Education, have both performed...
...Bali Comes West: Baliese Influence in Western Music--Brian Silver, Ass't Professor (Urdu) Currier House...