Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...using very big, broad steps Instead, they confined their actions to subtle. Yet very intricate foot and arm movements. The entire 30-minute piece seemed to eclipse in about 15 seconds as the whole audience fell under the hushed, dream-like sequence of events. Although the entire cast deserved mention. Elaine Kudo should be singled out for her superlative technique and presence. Whenever she danced she seemed to cast a spell with her beautiful interpretation of the combinations...
...proposal's specific mention of harassment on the basis of sexual preference deserves special note. In light of the Faculty refusal to approve a nondiscrimination clause on the grounds of sexual preference in 1981, the new provision is a welcome softening of their previous hardline stance on the issue...
...begin his survey. The 19th century Russian author had, after all, practically invented the isolated, sometimes criminally antisocial hero whose type kept reappearing in the works of Camus and Sartre. The more Frank read Dostoevsky, though, the less interested he became in contemporary writers. Notes from Underground, not to mention the towering achievements of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment, raised hordes of questions that had nothing to do with existentialism. The largest of these: What, besides genius, went into the composition of Dostoevsky's fiction...
What Castro failed to mention is that strict food rationing (2 Ibs. of meat a month, 2 oz. of coffee every two weeks) is an integral part of revolutionary Cuban life. Indeed, recalling that Cuba in 1959 had a prosperous middle class, Cuban Expert Wayne Smith, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., notes that "in the great equalizing process, the standard of living has declined...
...Cuban leader made no mention of his country's own foreign-debt crisis, which, in per capita terms, puts most nations in the shade. In the West, Cuba owes Western banks and governments an estimated $3.2 billion, including $1.1 billion in short-term debt to private banks. More than a year ago, Cuba announced that it was unable to meet its payments; efforts to reschedule the debt burden have been under way in Paris and London since last March. But in addition, Cuba owes more than $9 billion to East-bloc countries, principally the Soviet Union...