Word: dying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gilchrist's stories, there aren't any good ones. The relationships falter and die because of the men who are narrow-minded like Rhoda's father, or selfish like the married man in "Anna, Part I" or downright violent like the Lebanese immigrant in "The Emancipator" and the Black husband in "Memphis...
...history of life on earth has been punctuated by mass extinctions, the sudden disappearance of a large variety of plants and animals, possibly as the result of impacts by giant meteors or comets. In one of the most dramatic die- offs, 65 million years ago, more than half of all species on earth, including the dinosaurs, vanished. While experts debate the cause of these catastrophes and the probability and timing of the next one, scientists at the recent National Forum on BioDiversity warned that another sort of mass extinction is now taking place...
Referring to the administration's position thatthe ventilation system prevents locating thesmoking areas in the interior of the building,Moodie said, "We would all die if the airconditioning were truly closed. If they can havesmoking sections on airplanes, why can't theKennedy School have them...
...those notions I'd stored in the back of my mind for a long time, a notion that refused to die. It drove me to pull $200 from my BayBanks account. It drove me blatantly to disregard the thought of four Monday classes. And it drove me to catch a cab into Kenmore Square...
...surprising. Allegorical reinterpretation, the rage in Europe, strikes no sympathetic chords at Lincoln Center, where an earnest conventionality prevails. Schenk and Schneider- Siemssen staged the Met's highly regarded 1977 Tannhauser, a glowing, romantic evocation of the Thuringian countryside, with a sharp eye for naturalistic detail, and their Die Walkure is in the same tradition. Hunding's rude hut in Act I is an enormous wooden lodge, with an imposing tree growing in its center, while the landscapes of Acts II and III are rocky and forbidding. They are not so much sets as illustrations from a handsome coffee- table...