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...emerged from the anti-war movement--he was in the streets of Chicago with yippies Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman in 1968, nominating a pig for president--but he was too bright to believe that any of these fringe groups would achieve anything. But now the real movement was dormant, and with it the source of Ochs's creativity had dried up. He could only write with the momentum of the crowd behind him--he was sustained by their energy and hope...
...large the roster that played to rave reviews last year remained the same. Rico Petrocelli belted out three hits and the outfield trio of Jim Rice, Freddy Lynn and Dwight Evans combined for a melody of five hits (three of them for extra bases), as the offense that appeared dormant in Baltimore emerged from its winter hibernation...
...frustrations bred by a sense of inequality remained dormant within the Arab community until Israel's 1967 military victory, which brought the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under Jerusalem's rule. The 19-year isolation of Israel's Arabs from the rest of the Middle East suddenly ended. Israeli Arabs were shocked to find that they spoke, dressed and reacted differently than did their Palestinian cousins in the occupied territories. They encountered militant, anti-Israeli West Bankers, who denounced them for being more Israeli than Arab. At the same time, the Israeli Jew looked upon his Arab fellow citizen...
...window and sees her husband returning home, she reflects with amusement, "The triangle is complete." Nunn cuts to a three-shot, a triangulated composition with Tesman at the apex. That kind of literal-mindedness paralyzes the entire production, although it does demonstrate that the director may have some dormant skills in elementary geometry...
...only grow. Radio's electronic orgasmatron shows no signs of exhaustion. Only nine years ago, the Rolling Stones had trouble getting Let's Spend the Night Together on the air. But that was before radio became the billion-dollar record industry's top sales force. Once dormant FM stations now compete for AM's vast audience, who are mostly disc-hungry teen-agers with money to burn. Orgasmic rock, which flourishes on singles, does not outsell everything else; the top records are soft, romantic rock albums. But when a company wants to launch an unknown...