Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these two had gone without a rehearsal for a long time while still in the U.S.S.R. The ballet performed by Joanne Hochberg, Lois Rosenberg, and Francine Figie at the Ex at the beginning of April was the one bright spot in what is increasingly being treated as a hollow form...
...POINT of all this is presumably to show that, in addition to the illegal abuse that women suffer in the form of rape, they also suffer completely legal abuse in the courtroom--where rape victims are rarely presumed innocent. No argument there. Since this is by now a truism, director Lamont Johnson has the courage to make this one point unequivocally. The rest is pure, dumb contrivance: Stuart rapes Chris's little sister, Chris shoots him on the spot, and a contrite, now-sympathetic jury acquits her for her own crime of passion...
...something that happens in a lot of families, but in the case of the Rockefellers, particularly the third generation of David, Nelson and their three brothers, the working out of family relations has had a subtle, important effect on America and the world. The third generation and its children form the center of the book, and through their stories Collier and Horowitz make a case for a slow decline in the family dynasty. David and Nelson's generation are presented as ambitious and deeply flawed people, and their children as a neurotic, basically ordinary group that will never shape society...
This is not to imply that Collier and Horowitz gloss over the impact of the Rockefellers in favor of describing exquisite intertribal tensions. Particularly in detailing the history of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s five powerful sons, they carefully document the extent and form of the family's influence. In this modern, financially stable stage, their lives are inextricably bound up with the course of the nation, through a welter of foundations, governmental bureaus, financial institutions and the family specialty these days, report-writing panels of experts...
...form was off today," Embree said after the record-setting jump. "So I think I'm ready for 7 ft. 3 in." Embree will face the challenge of matching that mark in a star-studded field at the Penn Relays this Saturday in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love...