Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California taxpayer revolt threatens official bankruptcy "A gift-wrapped time bomb," says Los Angeles District Attorney John Van De Kamp...
When the irate murmurs died down, Marchais hit another target: his erstwhile comrade, Socialist Party Leader François Mitterrand. "When are we supposed to believe Mitterrand?" he asked rhetorically as boos filled the gym. The Socialist leader, he charged, planned to make a "gift" of $5.7 billion to "giant capitalist companies" in compensation for nationalizing them if he were elected...
THAT IS PERHAPS Cunningham's greatest gift, as the performances last week made clear. His work explores the processes of the body, but its effect also allows the onlooker to explore the processes of the perceiving mind. He gives us the dance: wondrous, self-delighting motion without any prop of plot or theme or explicit significance. And watching the dance, one becomes aware of the mind's response: a subjective discernment of plot and pattern, and the shape of ritual; a perception of the grounds of symbolic recognition in the flowering of unburdened form...
...article on rhesus monkeys being used in radiation experiments is appalling! India has decided to ban further shipment of rhesus monkeys to the U.S. [Feb. 6], but what of the fate of animals from other sources? God gave man a wonderful gift-the ability to feel compassion. Unfortunately, science is rapidly making man into a robot, devoid of feeling...
...Andre De Shields is a cat of cool gray nattiness and Ken Page is a slithery streetwise shark with a mi metic gift for Waller's gravelly mocking asides. To give the show its rightful name, "The Joint Is Jumpin...