Word: complement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jews as his people, the young Golda decided; rather, the Jews chose God: "The first people in history to have done something truly revolutionary." From Pinsk the Mabovitches emigrated to Milwaukee. At the Fourth Street School, still standing in the shadow of a brewery, Golda learned English to complement the Yiddish spoken at home and the Hebrew she would later speak with an accent. She yearned to become a schoolteacher, but Labor Zionism exerted a stronger pull. In 1921 she emigrated for the final time to the Yishuv, the Land of Israel...
...surprisingly, they all slip by inoffensively. But Peter Fletcher's version of the naive cop doesn't jibe with his cohort's naturalness. His lithe, eager responses to the fat cop are always a little too slow in coming--his resemblance to an inept Stan Laurel fails to complement Suchecki's realistic performance...
...then, but she wheedled a revealing kind of empathy out of you, at least if you were a woman (not necessarily a black woman), too. Not so nice to herself--nonetheless the poet kept a grip on her personality; it wasn't glamorous piece of public property tempered to complement the bland taste of everyman...
Finally, if it's hard-core raunch and roll you seek, you have no further to look than the Orpheum. On Friday, October 10, the triple billing of Foghat, Black Oak Arkansas and Montrose provides the ultimate in crotch rock and is the perfect complement to a bottle of Jack Daniels or Southern Comfort, depending on which part of the country you're from. Foghat sprang from the dissolution of one of the many Savoy Brown combos and added to their knowledge of blues a commercial touch in order to comply with the American audience's cry for boogie...
Last spring Tyner spent part of his five-day Boston tenure giving the audience a preview of his blistering Atlantis album. This time the playing will be more varied. Tyner's supporting staff, traditionally composed of the best music men around, like tenor saxman Azar Lawrence, complement the man who learned the true value of interaction with the master himself, Coltrane. Three shows nightly...