Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and I thought I must have had a few too many beers because I noticed the guy next to me at the bar was wearing a set of furry pants, furry arms, and furry paws. What's more, he sported a bright red and white striped sweater beneath a head that distinctly resembled the taxidea taxis in my high school biology book...
...these flaws dwindle in significance when you looks to the grandeur of the production's central work, Eh Joe. Holding court over the Ariel Chamber Ensemble, Worth sits directly beneath a gigantic video screen on which we see projected the face of the play's central character, Joe. Joe is haunted by the voice of a girl who once left him and his anguish increase as he mentally reenacts past relationships with his mother and a discarded Ophelia-both of whom he destroyed through neglect. The camera repeatedly closes in on Joe's face as the girl's taunts become...
...different would Iran be in 1979 if the CIA had not intervened. Mossadeq's aims were not as laudable as many now believe: in June and July 1953 he was almost certainly planning to abolish the Iranian parliament. As support slid from beneath his feet he was also being forced to rely unduly on the Iranian Communist Party. The CIA probably replaced one emerging dictator by another but in the long run by doing so it increased hatred of the United States. Kermit Roosevelt would have been saddened. The operation begun with moral fervor to save the Iranians for democracy...
...place is human now for a while at least, clearly Jimmy Carter's home. Anyone with the time to wander the county, to wait for the strong old rhythms of its life to sound their bass beneath the cashbox jingle, will see how the place has added to the man large measures of its own calm, its silent demonstration (at field's edge, in shacks, on more fortunate porches) of the few but urgent needs of human continuance, of-more urgent still -the needs of the earth. You may even come away with something like my own sense...
...beneath all the boisterousness and the backslapping, business was being conducted under the shrewd, ever watchful eye of Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. Schedules were being negotiated, committees assigned, legislation readied...