Word: martially
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BETWEEN ROCK AND ROLL and military music there has always existed a clandestine kinship that neither relation would want acknowledged. The ancient Greeks prescribed the Dorian mode for their soldiers' warm-up music, but since then, the West has recognized martial music by its 4/4 march time--the same rhythm that, one way or another, propels the traditional rock song. Martial music is supposed to excite sentimental feelings of patriotism and community, then harness them to aggressive instincts; rock songs stir up adolescent anger and lust, and--depending on which side of 1970 you grew up on--either ignite...
...plain curtain. The stage is carpeted. Props are few and simple. The costumes, by contrast, are spectacular, brilliantly colored and painstakingly embroidered. A mind-numbing combination of skills is required of the performers who wear those costumes: ballet, acrobatics, pantomime, acting, singing, and, I believe, some knowledge of martial arts. The music is played by an orchestra of Chinese instruments in the wings and at first sounds as strange and forbidding as Schoenberg does to Tschaikovsky lovers (interestingly, some of the singing sounds rather like Schoenbergian speech-singing...
...constellation of radical opposition groups that is sometimes called the Third Force, because it is both anti-Marcos and antiCommunist. The Third Force is composed mainly of middle-class Filipinos, many of them devout Catholics, who believe that the violent overthrow of Marcos' eight-year-old martial law regime is morally justified. Their reasoning: corruption and rigged elections have made peaceful opposition futile...
...produced no evidence directly linking the exiles to the April 6 organization's bombing campaign; the arrest orders seemed largely intended to put pressure on his most vocal opponents abroad. Another target may have been the Carter Administration, which has persistently urged Marcos to end martial law, but needs to maintain good relations with him because of U.S. military bases in the Philippines. Meanwhile, U.S. officials regard leaders like Aquino as the most promising successors to Marcos...
Chun admitted that many South Koreans are skeptical of his new-found reformist role. He believes he can reverse the "trend of distrust" by setting a time table for return to civilian rule. He promised that martial law will be lifted in time for the presidential election in March, a month before a new National Assembly will be chosen...