Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suitors who flock about the sisters are also well-played. John Bellucci masterfully plays Vershinin, the philosophizing soldier with whom Masha falls in love. Bellucci works his rich and versatile voice like a musical instrument, retaining extraordinary control of volume, diction and timing in long, technically taxing monologues. He meticulously defines his character by pacing constantly around the stage in repeated circles that parallel his sermons...
...Mahto men: as philosophers, fathers, warriors, hunters, and leaders: face questions that all humans face: is my son's bad behavior my fault? As leader of the people, should the people follow me or should I follow them? Is there a God? But her protangonist's quest--self-control and the meaning of existence--she never fully answers...
...same grade of gas. But the wholesale price can differ drastically from company to company. In Houston, for example, Exxon sells unleaded gasoline to its service stations for 56.9? per gal. and Phillips for 65.1?, while Shell charges 61.8? for its premium unleaded. The oil companies have no control over the price at the pump. That is set by the individual franchise dealers, which is why the same brand of gas can vary widely from station to station...
...Communist Party, at once seeking to improve public morale with fair laws and to maintain its total control, is left awkwardly balanced. Explains another deputy director of the Law Institute, Li Pu-yun: "Everyone in China, including party members, is under the law. But at the same time we don't think the law should be almighty." The compromise may be less than satisfactory, but still it is an improvement over the "lawlessness" Peking praised only a decade...
...both by the producing companies and by the networks, but no one could remember another show's having been killed so close to its premiere. Part of the problem, apparently, was that Little was a last-minute choice, replacing John Amos (Good Times), who had demanded unacceptable creative control. Part of the problem also was CBS's rush for a new series, which left T-A-T-with little time for second thoughts...