Word: minimall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its short, catchy melodic fragments, simple chordal harmonies, rock-steady rhythms and virtually trance-inducing repetitions, the minimalist music of such composers as Reich, 45, Philip Glass, 45, and John Adams, 35, is directly emotional in its appeal, a deliberate rebuke to three decades of arid, overly intellectualized music...
The deficiencies are stark, indeed. The state of Georgia, for instance, recently had to adopt a "floor score" for all state university applicants to try add boost standards. The minimal requirement: a student had to score 250 on either the math or verbal component of the SAT. Even so, state...
To their credit, few women's organizations have offered blanket pledges to support any and every woman candidate. "We are not interested in replacing mediocre men with mediocre women," says Kathy Wilson, head of the National Women's Political Caucus. She reports that her organization, the largest women's political...
Presented in the form of an amendment of the massive defense authorization legislation, this provision sailed through both houses with only minimal opposition. It will take effect for the 1983-84 school year and will affect all aid programs, including Guaranteed Student Loans, Pell Grants and Work Study funds.
The plot is straightforward boy-meets-girl and depends on such conventions as a villain in a top hat and rescuers in disguises (one does a drag impersonation of Queen Victoria). The stage is tiny and the choreography consequently minimal, yet in one serendipitous moment a painted cloth is lit...