Word: contents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel precedes Honor by a few years and more or less explains Charley's problem: he is girl-simple, as his associates accurately put it. He could be content with living the good life as a respected professional man, blasting some slob with an assault rifle here, acing out several losers with cyanide grenades there, and studying hard for his high school diploma at night school, where he earns the respect of all and is voted secretary-treasurer of his class...
Some of the effects are startling. In Partisans the dancers impersonate wartime equestrian irregulars, without benefit of horses. In At the Skating Rink they gambol and glide along imaginary ice in a skaters' waltz of rare beauty. Typically, the narrative is minimal, the political content low; for the Moiseyev, the steppe's the thing. Whether miming a cavalry charge or approximating the flight of eagles in a Kalmuck ceremony, the company attacks each number with ramrod backs and bright faces, precise and impeccable...
Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine Kurt J. Isselbacker '46 said biotechnological techniques can be used to change the nature of plants and animals, and to reduce the fat content of food. "It behooves us to reduce our fat intake from 42 to 30 percent of carbohydrate intake...
...unthreatening, alpha- state instrumental music is not only found in record stores across the nation but wafts from speakers in chic boutiques and fancy bookshops as well. Like its predecessors, Muzak and Mantovani, New Age music is easily disparaged. Yet music that relaxes need not be devoid of content. Bach composed the Goldberg Variations to ease the slumbers of an insomniac, and his contemporary, Telemann, wrote reams of Tafelmusik, music intended as background to dining. Quality is not necessarily restricted by function...
...where he can speak against a backdrop of hay. Should there be a show of concern about the Middle East? Vice President Bush travels to see the friendlies in Israel, Jordan and Egypt. The press was driven to analyzing not what the trip accomplished but whether it had any content at all. It was the White House that staged and stamped it as news and the press that went along for the ride. The networks, eager to give an air of importance to the summer lull, are all too willing to play along with staged news, and thus share...