Word: dwelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They call her "fast-ass": she calls them all Mary because "all the baptized black women on the island had Mary among their names." Jadine is young, beautiful, talented but orphaned; she has lost her sense of past. Her traditions died with her mother, and those Black people who dwell comfortably in legend do not trust her with her light skin. They see the traces, the Africa in her face, but they don't believe that she does since "Yallas don't come to being black natural-like. They have to choose it and most don't choose...
...performance of a new work is harder to get than the first; pieces are often commissioned, played once and then forgotten. Although Speculum presents many premieres, it has also tried to give good music a chance to catch on. Certain pieces -Carter's A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Wuorinen's Speculum Speculi and Martino's Pulitzer-prizewinning Notturno-are played fairly frequently...
Marie Osmond, 21, pop singer, on her own virginity: "People dwell so much on why Marie won't go to bed with somebody, and they think I'm a little weird because I haven't yet. Like I'm missing a big thing...
...felt the suffering. Now, I feel part of the miracle of their freedom. It's what we needed desperately to bring our country together again." Trying to build on this new sense of national unity, President Reagan urged the ex-hostages and, by implication, the nation not to dwell on the past, but to "turn the page and look ahead...
When Alexander Haig replaced H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman as President Nixon's Chief of Staff in May 1973, the Administration still had 14 months of torment ahead. At Haig's Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats probably will dwell on these questions about his shadowy backstage role during those days...