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When I came here I was very much fascinated by the freedom here, all these opportunities, all these choices," Hadzilacos says, with a sarcastic lilt to his voice. "The change came through the influence of other Greeks and what happened in Greece...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: In Cambridge, They Remember Greece | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

With a large cast and many bursts of jumbled activity, the main challenge in the play is to the director. David Giles meets it, handling pace and actors with more than breezy authority that gives the entire evening a refreshing, spontaneous lilt. "Martha Duffy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: British Sketchbook | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...really a lullaby at all, rather a hymn to the father who rarely babysits, and actually one of those rolling hills, green fields country songs with throwaway guitar lines. "Was a Sunny Day" seems obligatory, cute and Caribbean in music and tone -- even the phrasing approaches the West Indian lilt -- but its salvation is that it's not another attempt at reggae...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: Simon Says: Diversify | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...accused of prejudiced representation of the feminine form. And the fact that it almost blends with the wall forces one to look at other corners of the building (forces one to engage oneself in the environment) to see whether the piece is unique, and it adds a pleasant lilt to the bottom of the corner as the steel broadens and folds outward from the wall...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: Environment and Sculpture | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

...hear the lilt of exploding bombs and the music of helicopter gunmen that so enthralled the author of Grapes of Wrath. We hear Thruston Morton pathetically suggest that the existence of a standing military-industrial complex with nothing to do but build weapons and use them might influence policy unwisely...

Author: By Jim Frosch, | Title: In the Year of the Pig | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

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