Word: forays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Secretary of State Warren Christopher took heat from Congress for his chilly reception in Beijing two weeks ago. But what Christopher's critics didn't know is that the advance foray by one of his deputies that so irritated the Chinese was carried out without Christopher's knowledge. The Secretary was unaware that John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, was meeting a week earlier with Chinese dissident leader Wei Jingsheng. The U.S. embassy arranged the visit at the last minute and expected Wei to keep it secret...
DIED. SALLY BELFRAGE, 57, author; of cancer; in London. Born in Los Angeles to English parents, Belfrage made her first journalistic foray in 1959 with A Room in Moscow, a report on daily life in the post-Stalin Soviet Union. She went on to join the fabled freedom riders in the early 1960s, registering blacks to vote and recording her feelings of terror and triumph in the 1965 book Freedom Summer. Her other works include Living with War, based on a year in the urban battleground of Belfast in Northern Ireland, and an autobiography to be published later this year...
...White Oak's first New York foray was a success. What sets this troupe apart from other groups organized by celebrities is the seriousness and intelligence of its programs and the fact that the ensemble comes first. While Baryshnikov may have solos, he appears in other dances -- Signals, Lilies -- in small roles. The audience leaves feeling that it has had a revealing glimpse into modern dance, not into a superstar's mirror...
Those figures leave out one more death: that of Goldstein. He was eventually cracked over the head by a fire extinguisher hurled by someone in the crowd and then beaten lifeless. He seems to have expected something of the sort: before leaving on his murderous foray, he sent goodbye notes to the town council of Kiryat Arba and to a colleague who had worked with him at the clinic there, indicating that he would not return. To the co-worker he wrote, "I enjoyed working as a doctor. Wishing for full redemption...
Swan Lakewas Tchaikovsky's first foray into the ballet world, and has become a ballet classic with its universal themes of good and evil, truth and deception, love, and coming of age. The Boston Ballet pumped an entirely new energy into this timeless classic in 1990, orchestrating the first ever Soviet/American collaboration on all facets of a full ballet production...