Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less than a week after President Ford woke up to find that he had lost not only his voice but the presidency, his former colleagues in the Congress came out with a book that made marked men of all his Republican lieutenants.
Dennis Crowley, back once again to sing the patter song, is another familiar face. Crowley has somewhat less to do as Major General Stanley than he did as the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, but he carries the part off with the same Gilbertian quizzicality that has marked his previous successes...
In some respects, the new police mood seems anomalous. It has been years since they heard the radical chants of "Pig!" Those insults-combined with the long list of Warren Court rulings in favor of criminal defendants-marked a nadir for police morale. Since then, however, the eight-year Republican...
The players embarked on the first movement with a good response to the contrapuntal themes and development which ran through this piece. It is marked "moderately fast, with vigor," and the group really did plunge into the work. Mighty drum rolls vied for attention with the forceful brasses. But the...
There are three marked weaknesses to Kiernan's biography, one of which the author could do little about: the lack of information from Arafat himself. As Kiernan explains in his foreward, upon launching the book he asked for and received Arafat's promise of assistance. But when Kiernan returned to...