Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Trinidadian writes are brothers, which partly explains why their recent books on Africa both argue that the heart of darkness has relocated to a new bend in the river, just north of South Africa. They have not left Conrad far behind in their assertion that Africa is a dark and irrational continent...
Sellars' staging matches his conception of the rest of the play; that is, there's no idea behind it, only a fanatical desire not to do things conventionally. He uses scaffolds and shrubbery well, and borrows dark blue back-lighting and candles from his spring production of The Three Sisters at the Loeb. He also matches that production's inspired use of music. Burlesque is the basic style of David Reiffel's music for two, four, six, and even eight hands, and its use throughout does much to enliven the show...
Shanker also said approval of the bill would weaken education by reducing the labor support now behind the health and welfare appropriations of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...first national survey of all types of family violence. They picked their subjects from every walk of life and all parts of the country; 2,143 family members were interviewed. Out of this study, which will be published in the fall as an eleven-chapter book titled Behind Closed Doors: A Survey of Family Violence in America (Doubleday), they offer a dismal statistical portrait of American family life. Highlights...
...Wind in 1976, Parker has stalked the big time, collecting delirious reviews but staying an arm's length away from the top of the charts and the kind of record sales that are commemorated with albums cast in semiprecious elements. Just last spring, with a new record company behind him, Parker released one of the year's best albums, Squeezing Out Sparks, and set out on two bruising cross-country concert tours to rally fans and baptize some new converts. His style of total-immersion rock is a salubrious shock to the central nervous system...