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Excited about courses he's taking in social justice, discrimination, and fiction by Black women authors, Jackson is aiming to gain insight into why athletes and education have failed to mesh, and why people in sports have grown and adapted the way they have...
WITH ALL these tales to tell, there's no way the production could fail. The only weakness is that the stories rarely mesh, leaving each performance isolated. Director Patrick Bradford tries to combat the problem by casting the actors in one another's tales. But because the stories are so separate, each actor tends to stand alone...
Striking though the individual elements are, they do not always mesh. Although Childs says her dance is closely allied with Adams' music, too often the two clash: the sounds urgent, the movements passive. Further, visual minimalism palls more quickly than its aural counterpart, and beside Adams' expanded vocabulary, Childs' monochromaticism looks dated. By definition, being a member of the avant-garde means always being in motion, like running up a down escalator: if you are not actively moving forward, you are surely moving backward. -By Michael Walsh
...would be strays, caged in shelters, ready to be "put to sleep." The idea was that the Defense Department's new Wound Laboratory would pay about $80 for each dog. When the time came for research to proceed, the dogs would be anesthetized with pentobarbital, suspended in nylon mesh slings and shot with a 9-mm Mauser from a distance of twelve or 15 feet. The dogs would then be carried into a lab, and people studying to be military surgeons would examine the damage and learn something about gunshot wounds, which might some day save human lives...
While Clark has made the NSC machinery work more smoothly-among other things, he reorganized the council's 40 professionals largely according to geographic specialties to make for a better mesh with the State Department-his lack of expertise has produced a number of policy fiascoes. It was Clark who was responsible for the misguided embargoes against West European suppliers of parts for the Soviets' natural gas pipeline. Clark urged Reagan to stick to an unrealistically hard line in defending the size of this year's defense budget increase. He also sponsored Kenneth Adelman to be Eugene...