Word: conceptions
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...modern dancer and dynamic, unconventional choreographer; of a heart attack; in New York City. The first modern dancer to choreograph for a major ballet company (Virginia Sampler in 1947 for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), she also worked for Broadway and Hollywood, bringing back to the dance a concept of "total theater," the combined use of singing, dancing and acting in such ballets as As I Lay Dying, based on William Faulkner's novel, and A Streetcar Named Desire, a scorching version of Tennessee Williams' play...
...that is mentioned on the same document as free elections. Therefore, a compromise has to be struck. The networks should pledge to keep their results private until all polls have closed. This would not be mandated by law, but would be complied with voluntarily by the media. Such a concept is not unique. The President's State of the Union Message, for example, is routinely distributed to the press prior to the President's appearance before Congress with the assurance that the contents will not be made public until after the speech. Similar voluntary restrictions should apply to airing exit...
Palme's most controversial plan is known as the wage-earner fund, an innovative concept designed to increase worker investment in industry. The plan would impose a 1% levy on wages, paid by the employer, and a 20% corporate tax on "excess profits," to be contributed to a fund that would be set up in each of Sweden's 24 counties. The pool of money, expected to grow by $1 billion a year, would be used to purchase shares in profitable companies. Critics in business and industry as well as Palme's political opponents warn, however, that...
While Disney's successors have clung to the founder's ugly acronym (Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), they have departed from his Utopian concept of a real-life community evolving in harmony with an ever changing and beneficent technology. What they have wrought is not the town but the adult toy of the future. Epcot is a mind-pummeling assault of electronic ingenuity, historical fact, fancy, showmanship, faith, hope...
Dancin' in the Street! first nestled into Boston's cozy Next Move Theatre five months ago. For a concept developed and produced in a town largely pre-occupied with national productions bound for the Big Apple, the goal was appropriately modest: Dancin' in the Street!, a musical revue offering 33 Motown hits by singers-dancers and a six-piece band, was supposed to occupy the Next Move, one of Boston's tiniest stages, for the better part of a month...