Word: contents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walled Old City surrounding the holy shrines is still redolent of cinnamon and roasting lamb and hashish and donkey turds, the twisting alleys leading onto the Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way) are covered with paving stones rather than mud. Even the cats-Jerusalem has a remarkable quantity of cats-look content...
...made her unforgettable debut as a monologuist with Twirlers, in which the heroine likens champion baton wielding to a transcendent experience ("Twirling is the throwing of yourself up to God"). Lisa Goodman repeats her role this year, and ten more Martin monologues have been added. The most powerful, in content and performance, is Handler. The heroine (Susan Cash) belongs to the Holiness Church and handles rattlers: "If you got the spirit, snake don't bite...
This problem stems from the constitution's content. Hand-in-hand goes the framers' alarming inability to persuade a majority to vote "yes." For the professed enemies of apathy, the two-thirds-approval/50-percent-turnout clause allowed a way out. As long as they met the minimum requirements, the "yes" forces could afford to ignore the will of the majority which preferred, through voting "no" or abstaining, to avoid supporting the new council...
...Rightists are saying this, of course. That Reagan has resisted their cloying complaints offers little encouragement. Instead, his blithe displays of intransigence fly in the face of prudence without serving the cause of altruism. But fusing to take a step back, Reagan has distorted the end of apology, content to put an end to apology...
...next date marked on the political calendar is April 20, when the candidates will square off for the first time in a televised debate arranged after weeks of squabbling over format and content...