Word: cumber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Viewed as a creative means of familiarizing Americans with Tibetan custom. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a thought-provoking, often powerful performance which leaves the audience highly intrigued. Yet because it proves so cumber some to imbibe such ritual with the accompanying level of theatricality, the show fails to develop and sustain our interest. How much one can be moved by the performance ultimately depends on the intensity and extent of one's religious and philosophical convictions. If you're looking for an opportunity to supplement your foreign cultures requirement and are up for an intensely thought provoking...
...system had been in place for more than two years, with no attempts at enforcement; federal officials were growing hungry for blood, and probably wanted to snap first in the summer, when colleges and protestors would be safely on vacation. But the cumber-some cross-checking would have taken too long, so they proceeded with euphemistically labeled "passive enforcement"--going only after vocal violators...