Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, because the director seems to have reserved the actors' energy for the latter half of the play, many of the early performances are restrained. With the exception of one mildly emotive scene between Fifty and a widow burying her child, and one comic interlude between two age-obsessed gossips, the early scenes fail to win the audience's sympathy...
Cesare ("Tall Guy") Bonventre was one of the latter. When he entered the U.S. 16 years ago from Castellammare del Golfo at the age of 17, he had few skills beyond a natural ability with a lupara, a sawed-off shotgun. But he was quick and good-looking, and he did have some connections: his uncle Peter was a founding member of New York's Bonanno crime family and his uncle Giovanni was one of the family's leading underbosses. Bonventre was impatient; so when he tired of the construction job his "family" had found...
Those are the terms of the debate in Soviet studies today. Stephen Cohen, a professor of Soviet studies today. Stephen Cohen, a professor of Soviet politics and history at Princeton University and a columnist for The Nation, leans toward the latter view. But he claims that news coverage of the Soviet Union favors the former...
...installed unity government got down to business quickly. At its first Cabinet meeting last week, the coalition of Labor and Likud, the country's two major political groups, decided to cut this year's $23 billion budget by $1 billion and devalue the shekel by 9%. That latter move, which dropped the currency's value from 354 shekels to the U.S. dollar to 397, was meant to stop a run against the currency that was dangerously draining the country's foreign reserves...
...film is, of course, valuable not simply as a murder mystery, but also as a penetrating examination of changing attitudes of both Blacks and whites-the former beginning to strive for his equal place in society, the latter, begrudgingly, beginning to accept it. Armed with intelligence and confidence, Davenport represents the changing American Negro-the connection between the scraping and subservience of the past, and the pride and self-satisfaction of the future...