Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...implications of this referendum are tremedously complex. The rhetoric in the Cambridge press has done little to clarify the matter. Nonetheless, we cannot afford to ignore the dilemmas raised by the referendum. Americans, Jews and non-Jews alike, must cry out both against the injustice perpetrated by the Israelis upon the Palestinians in the territories and against the lack of any substantial move towards peace in the region as a whole. Whether deep reflection upon the matter leads one to vote for this particular referendum or to abstain from voting on it is not the issue of primary importance. What...
...handful of political celebrities arrived at the Fresh Pond Apartments complex Saturday to plug voter registration for minority citizens...
Millions of American working couples must scramble every day to arrange care for their children. But the Shankers have one big advantage over most parents: the day-care center is at Steven's office. Union Bank provides $150,000 a year to subsidize the complex, which includes spacious play areas and five classrooms. While it would cost Shanker up to $700 a month to put his boys in other local day-care facilities of comparable quality, he pays the bank only $520 through convenient payroll deductions. Moreover, the arrangement allows him to avoid paying taxes on the portion...
...what appears on the L.A.T.C.'s stages -- from classics and European avant-garde imports to new works by Los Angeles playwrights and projects from black, Asian and Hispanic theater labs -- is so compelling that within three years of opening, it has grown to a thriving four-theater complex with 26,000 subscribers that earns half its budget from ticket sales. Playgoers readily brave the neighborhood to see the L.A.T.C.'s feisty, political and customarily left-of-center offerings...
...L.A.T.C.'s Bushnell readily concedes an inspirational debt to Davidson, and to Joseph Papp, whose Public Theater in Manhattan is a similar urban complex. But Bushnell has fashioned an institution all its own, against perhaps tougher odds than faced either of the others. Like the Public, the L.A.T.C. tends to excuse artistic lapses on the grounds of good intentions: its present offering of a black South African tract, Bopha!, performed by the authors, is exuberant but crude. The other show now running, however -- the debut of Kingfish by local writer Marlane Meyer -- is an adroitly staged, intelligently acted...