Word: commanders
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Bird scored 15 points and grabbed five rebounds as Boston opened a 36-26 first period lead. The Celtics widened the margin to 67-52 at halftime and were in command the rest...
...would sneak out so cravenly. The latest assertion making its way through the Massachusetts political rumor mill is that Tip O'Neill, who supports Shannon, pressured Markey to quit. That seems out of character for Tip, but if Markey is re-elected and starts receiving favors from the high command, it might be worth redirecting our present scorn...
Told in flashbacks by Bligh at his naval trial for losing the ship, the movie switches back and forth between the present and the story of Bligh's tragic removal from his command. The flashback technique makes the movie even more choppy, we aren't sure if the Flashbacks are from Bligh's perspective or an objective portrayal of the events. The film becomes a potpourri of disjointed images, which sacrifices character development for landscaping...
With The Golden Apples, published in 1949, Welty began being praised for her command of narrative technique. The Optimist's Daughter, 1972, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This year, a year that seems to be her year, she is on the bestseller lists with One Writer's Beginnings. The sun is indeed shining bright on her old Jackson home, on Pinehurst Street, where she was saying the other morning, "Do sit down. I'm going to raise a window." She said she was wondering whether she might not have sounded incoherent at a late hour...
...somewhat inaccessible to present day sensibility Composed in the far away dawn of the television era, the play juxtaposes how oppressive the deadening hilarity of sitcom is next to a drama which probes the validity of all its characters feelings. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry impresses any audience with her command over an astonishing range of feeling, she recalls I M Forster at his best and least boring. But immediately one wonders if a Black playwright today, writing after the tumults, disillusion, and stilling of the last two decades, could afford the humanity which Hansberry so richly displays...