Word: dying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Glover, the busiest black actor in Hollywood (The Color Purple, Witness, Silverado), made his Chicago stage debut at Steppenwolf's intimate--and perforce uncommercial--211- seat space in Athol Fugard's A Lesson from Aloes. A few blocks away, William Peterson, star of the film thriller To Live and Die in L.A., has rejoined the funky, avant-garde Remains Theater in a portrayal of brainwashing, Days and Nights Within...
Nine of the graves signify people who died fighting apartheid in South Africa and slavery in America. The 10th grave stands for the people yet to die in the struggle, said N. Andrew Cohen, general manager of the Brown Daily Herald. The pro-divestment activists are keeping a round-the-clock watch over the graves to prevent vandalism similar to that which occurred at Dartmouth and Stanford...
TRADITIONALLY, IT IS the responsibility of the living to make sure that heroes who died too soon did not die in vain. The Reagan Administration seems to have a penchant for turning that commitment on its head...
...Kline's misfortune to die before he had worked out the big change of his mature style, from black and white to color. At the same time, there was never much interest in his early efforts. The paintings of industrial landscapes from his youth, city streets, bar scenes and alienated clowns (Nijinsky as Petrouchka, done from an old photograph, was a favorite image) were seen, if at all, as a mere prelude to his abstract work. They did not look as "interesting" as the early work of his colleagues because Kline was the only abstract expressionist not touched by surrealism...
...soldiers. Many of them are the young, orphaned children of the more than half a million people killed under Amin and Obote. They are fiercely loyal to their leader. "I fight for Uganda because Museveni is my father," said Sylaz Kazora, a twelve-year-old rebel soldier. "I will die for him. Not for the country...