Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SIMILARLY, the majority laments the reaction to the Mather kiss-in, noting that had heterosexuals staged a kiss-in the reaction would have been "different" A heterosexual kiss-in in the dining hall during meal hours surely would have offended many students as well. Simply put, this form of protest--whether used by gays or hetersexuals--stretches the limits of good taste and consequently suffers as an effective means of protest...
...much as $50,000 for a single game. Several tribes hire management companies to run their bingo enterprises, and some of these companies, says the FBI, are fronts for organized crime, which skims the profits, leaving a pittance to the Indians. At least the Navajo nation is spared this form of corruption, since bingo is unpopular there; but those looking for a big-money game can always find one on a neighboring reservation...
...decades, Robbins commuted easily, prodigiously, between the ballet and Broadway. One form fed the other. In 1943 he danced in Anthony Tudor's Romeo and Juliet; six years later, he devised his own Romeo and Juliet ballet, The Guests; in 1957 he reworked the theme for West Side Story and, the next year he adapted that show's street rhythms in his ballet N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz. His creativity and vigor seemed inexhaustible: 20 musicals and 19 ballets in 20 years. Even Robbins is impressed. "When I started doing this show," he says, "I looked at what I did then...
Boom-car buffs emphasize that they use the latest digital technology to achieve quality in their sound, not just quantity. "It is an art form to manage a car interior sonically," says Steve Seidl, who outfits boom cars at Speaker Warehouse in Hollywood, Fla. "We use a spectrum analyzer to measure the 'pink noise' in the car or to focus the sound on the driver...
...dive into the short-movie form is highly difficult, especially when confronted from the platform of a lofty reputation. It requires the same concentration of effort and narrative skills needed for a full-length feature but, without the distractions of spectacle or subplot, makes flaws more obvious. In these circumstances, Scorsese and Allen have a natural advantage. Their core following is not big enough to support the grand movie gesture, and they have learned the art of compression that seems to bore, if not actually depress, their ever thrashing colleague...