Word: bustings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like an ongoing experiment that has not yet found a final form. But in Harambee!, a drama about martyred black leaders, accompanied by five on stage drummers, his flair for sound and atmosphere brightened the stage of the ANTA with vivid scenes: the shooting of a black chief, a bust by the authorities, the re birth of rebellion in the up surge of anger that follows...
...suffragette, which gives Russell much opportunity for lumpen-sexist travesty by having her do a song-and-hop number about votes for women in a nightclub and then, at Gaudier's demand, drop her knickers onstage. Around 1912, the real-life Gaudier was commissioned to do a portrait bust of a Major Smythies, who - considering the time and place and the modernity of Gaudier's work - can hardly have been a fool. Russell turns him into a florid cross between Kaiser Bill and Colonel Blimp, querulously posing in a drawing room on a white horse. Do such absurdities...
...dawn the impossible stands before him--a revolutionary bus of Beauty Shaw of course, never shows up So the by now manic messiah carts his statue through a violent downpour to Shaw's gallery in the center of Paris and to a crescendo of stormy musak, he hurls his bust exultantly at the horrified faces behind the gallery glass...
...Most important to investors, the Government in 1970 set up the Securities Investor Protection Corp. to pay off customers of brokers who go bust. S.I.P.C., which insures investments up to $50,000, already has paid out $9.8 million to investors who otherwise would have lost their money...
...YORK -- Brad Higgins president of Colurabia's class of 1974, is bringing school spirit back to the university that in 1968 gave us the first student strike, the first bloody bust and the worst college football team in the country...