Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closing moments, when one of the actors looks critically at the others' nostalgia for the ideals of the sixties, sums up the problem. Asking what it all really accomplished, he is neatly shunted aside by a quick and easy deus ex machina, the question never to be dealt with at all. The lone figure from the past--aged 21 in 1968, 41 in 1988 when the play is supposed to take place--serves only to frame the action and act as a convenient medium for the songs, like "Hair" and "Aquarius," that can't be neatly crammed into the modernized...
...full cycle of basic: "Some men and women couldn't run; some men cried and were scared. The most important differences were between people when it came to training soldiers." For the most part, she concludes, the success of either sex depended on how well the drill sergeants dealt with those individual differences...
Stern said that in the past few years all Jewish institutions and organizations have been closed down and Jewish activists arrested. Soviet officials recently closed the Cultural Seminar in Leningrad, which dealt which the period of the Second Temple and related issues, because of its "anti-Soviet" studies, he added...
...LIFE, either you deal or get dealt," they tell the ten-year-old who has recently escaped from a juvenile prison and is trying to make it on the streets of Sao Paulo. And so, Pixote deals. He assaults and robs middle-aged women, stabs a prostitute, and accidentally murders his best friend...
...Israelis would keep their promise to withdraw from the easternmost portion of the Sinai by next April, and promised to work for a comprehensive Middle East settlement. He defended the loyalty of the armed forces and warned his adversaries that if they broke the law they would be dealt with "unmercifully." "There is no difference between Muslim and Christian," he declared. "We are all of the same caravan. Let us always ask what we can give to Egypt, not what we can take from...