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...doubt you begin to get the drift. It's all right, you know--there are lots of good movies this weekend. Who knows? Maybe next week something really exiciting will show up, like a demonstration pretesting the general belief that the earth is round...
That's just about the way it stands as the trial opens. Other heavies of the Arizona business world drift in and out of the story and it will be interesting to see what the trial turns up. Detective Lonzo McCracken of the Phoenix Police Dept. said "Listen this murder was planned." Which means what? That a reporter was killed at high noon in the middle of town--as an example or out of stupidity...
...fact, reading Rainer's book may be more exciting than having seen the 12 years of performances, if only for the sense you acquire of Rainer's oeuvre--the first heady obsessions followed by a period of drift, and then a strong, clear push in a new direction. Rainer never directly analyzes the transformation from her early to late work, stating only that she hopes the changed tone of her writing demonstrates "my uneven development from intransigent artist-as-an-outraged-young-woman...
...rural picture is not so bright. More than 50% of the 866,000 rural black families are living below the official poverty line ($5,500 for a family of four). As agricultural jobs continue to dry up, unskilled blacks are being forced off the land. Some drift into the shabby single-family shacks in the ghettos of Southern cities; others travel to the denser ghettos of the North...
...historical irony. Before the rise of Protestant liberalism in the 19th century, when scholars began to question such keystone doctrines as the deity of Jesus and his resurrection, U.S. Protestantism was generally evangelical. Then came the Civil War and in its wake, the growth of Northern cities and the drift of Northern Protestantism into a more liberal camp...