Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...element of surprise will be on the side of Israel. They have made it clear they intend to make a pre-emptive strike against the Syrians and Palestinians to begin the fifth Arab-Israeli war. It is the duty of the United Nations to bring pressure to bear [on Israel]. Otherwise, a catastrophe is coming to this area...
...crowd of almost 60,000 Zairians in a chant of "Ali boma ye!" (Ali, kill him) before he began to dance round the ring, dodging Foreman's powerful swings. It was just as the experts and even the boxers themselves had predicted: the bear was chasing...
...execution of Equus there are no ambiguities. Together with Director John Dexter and Set Designer John Napier, Shaffer has fashioned a spectacle dominated by horses: actors who bear on their heads equine masks and on their feet wear 6-in.-high hoofs that thud with the menace of a jungle drum. Shaffer has been fascinated by mask drama ever since he wrote The Royal Hunt of the Sun, about the conquistador Pizarro in Peru. At his suggestion, Inca funeral masks were worn by the Indians in the last act. "Nobody could think how they should look during Pizarro...
...trouble is that there is a special feeling about being an ironworker, a special life, special requirements and frustrations. And Cherry gives enough glimpses of them that we feel what's missing. But he can't bear to write it down. The book's tragic figure is Timmy, an alcoholic connector who's on the "drunk gang" (unimportant projects--usually wrecking) and pours out his life story one night in a bar. He is someone who was created by ironworking--it defines him--and when he recurs throughout the book he is powerful. But it leads Cherry nowhere: when Timmy...
...such a play. So was J.B. and A Man for All Seasons and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? These plays have one thing in common. They roar through an evening with blazing dramatic pyrotechnics. On the following dawn, the embers of their dubious intellectual premises will scarcely bear analysis...