Word: intentional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1/2-hour adaptation of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata. He is probably best remembered for his 1970 A Midsummer Night's Dream, which uncovered weighty conflicts of the sexes and social classes in what had been seen as amiably airy farce. That production, gymnastic and visually abstract, signaled a revolutionary intent from the first glance. This time Brook's method is less obtrusive: though there are no sets to speak of, the costumes are in period and the air is abuzz with patronymics. Still, once again he has revisionism in mind...
Throughout the day-long debate, both sidescontended their intent was to secure peace in theturbulent region...
David Graham, 23, has been charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. He is pleading not guilty, and a motions hearing for his case will be held on February...
Certainly, Ortega has used well-timed gestures in the past to sway Congress. Shortly after the Reagan Administration made known its intent last September to seek $270 million in contra funding, Ortega went on a public-relations offensive. He announced the reopening of two opposition news outlets, the newspaper La Prensa and Radio Catolica, and pardoned 16 jailed rebel sympathizers. Sensing defeat, the U.S. Administration scaled back its request to just $30 million. Still, Ortega pressed on. He agreed to indirect talks with the contras and designated Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo as the mediator. In the end, Congress granted...
...Israeli authorities found an arms cache in the cellar of his mosque. Sheik Yasin and several dozen followers were charged with illegal possession of weapons and intent to destroy the state of Israel; though he was sentenced to 13 years in jail, he was freed ten months later in a mass exchange of Palestinian political prisoners for Israeli POWs in Lebanon...