Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BRATTLE THEATER. Brink of Life, 6:15, 9:30, wknd mat 3, Dreams, wknd...
What snatches Mother back from the brink of tedium is the talent and unpolluted enthusiasm-of its young ten-member cast. Kelly Garrett, all bangs and boots and big, big eyes, sings from somewhere deeper than the thorax. Each time her small frame produces that large voice it is a surprise, and after a while the listener understands that there is more than physical equipment and technique at work here. Garrett somehow has the illusion that in pleading the environment case, she is delivering word that is not only vital but fresh. Carol Kristy, another pixie with astonishing gusto, shares...
...principle with North Viet Nam for the shape of a settlement, and his was the unenviable task of selling that settlement to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, whose political demise will be an inevitable consequence of the package. However Thieu might balk, Viet Nam seemed closer to the brink of peace than it has been in a decade...
...every street corner, and enforced a midnight-to-dawn curfew. Half the city seemed out on strike -truckers, taxi owners, and even a majority of doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers, pharmacists and maritime pilots. In a television appeal, beleaguered President Salvador Allende Gossens declared that the country was on "the brink of civil...
...Krackow has rotated among high positions in banking, construction and machine-tool production. Now he has taken over as chairman of the executive board of the fabled and recently troubled Krupp steelmaking and heavy machinery concern. Krackow replaces Güinter Vogelsang, who rescued the Ruhr giant from the brink of bankruptcy, then bowed out in disagreement with the powerful former chief executive, Berthold Beitz...