Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onetime peasant from a village near the North-South border who was head of the Viet Cong's armed forces during the war (TIME, May 5). Tra introduced the eleven-member military administration committee that will direct Saigon's return to normality. In his speech, delivered beneath a huge picture of Ho Chi Minn, Tra praised the "fierce anti-American spirit" of the South Vietnamese and promised leniency toward those who had worked for the old government...
BOLSHOI BALLET. The key to the enduring Bolshoi mystique is its magnitude: the colossal technical prowess of its dancers, their grandeur of emotion, the elaborate theatrical productions. Alas, on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera the gallant dancers often sag beneath the weighty spectacle of the frantic choreography of Director Yuri Grigorovich. Yet Giselle, the company's corner stone, abounds in fresh lyrical dancing and finely drawn characterizations. Radiant young Ludmila Semenyaka and Vyacheslav Gordeyev, a powerful classical dancer, should win fans during the Bolshoi's nine-city national tour...
...should we remove them? Even the current increase has forced elderly people on fixed incomes and families without employment to switch to diets of starch and pet food in order to pay their rents, or to move out of their homes-and hometown. We have to dig deeper, beneath the tug-of-war between protected profits and decent living standards if, to use Pillsbury's phrase, "the reality of the issue is to shine through...
...Beneath all the rhetoric about equal access, one fact stands out: there will be no noticeable improvement in the present 2.3 to 1 male-female ratio for at least three more years...
...Japan Inc., a vast army of devoted, disciplined businessmen. To Americans the Japanese too often appear as some sort of grotesque national parody-crowds of transistor salesmen with kamikaze pilots' scarves, legions of passionate new consumers teeming on a string of islands which are about to sink beneath their growing population and industrial swill...