Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some Commusicals did fit the stolid stereotype--Mikhail and Judit shouting, "Let's harvest the beet crop right here!"--but many have an enduring buoyancy. Grigori Alexandrov's pioneering The Jolly Fellows (1934) percolates with jaunty jazz, Cubist compositions and a Dietrichish blond in a party hat. The amazing Midnight Revue (G.D.R., 1962) is a comically cynical parable about the difficulty of making a musical when your producer is not Arthur Freed but a pack of philistine bureaucrats. We can't approve your film, the apparatchiks sing...
...concluded that China had delivered to Pakistan not just missile parts but also more than 30 ready-to-launch M-11s that are stored in canisters at the Sargodha air force base west of Lahore. The Pakistanis were also working to build nuclear warheads small enough to fit atop the missiles...
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...newspaper ads suggesting that girls were having third-trimester abortions because they couldn't fit into their prom dresses remain pro-life hyperbole, but the Roman Catholic bishops who ran them are right when they say there is almost no difference between the prom Mom and a woman having a third-trimester abortion, except for location and a few days...
...Sometimes women, more than men, need more proactive encouragement to say, 'you do fit the bill for this place,'" said WSA Co-President Cynthia L. Rutherford. "The career opportunities are much larger than I think a lot of women realize...