Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the rest of the script is occasionally stilted, leaving all the adults somewhat caricatured, the generally fine acting overshadows minor flaws Robyn Nevin, in particular, is a strong willed and loving Lila, who will not let her family be destroyed by poverty or by Vanessa...
Under the requirements, the 30 incoming Ph.D. candidates will have to specialize in one of these areas American politics, international relations, political theory, or comparative politics and then choose both a minor field of study and a "focus" subject in preparation for general examinations at the end of the second year...
...want us to bring supercross back to Foxboro next year, we can't have that kind of behavior." Foxboro police said it was hard to compare the supercross crowd to a football crowd because it was much smaller, but they reported only one fight and a handful of minor incidents. An average football game may send upwards of 25 people to the police station. Clearly supercross has a long way to go if it is to capture the hearts of the populace...
...tension of each confrontation between Gaston and the Renauds' is relieved, but not diffused, in several minor scenes. Eric Ronis, who plays the butler, is single-handedly responsible for some of the most humorous episodes in the play. He is cynical, sarcastic and almost painfully snide. As a whole, Traveller Without Luggage moves smoothly from scene to scene, escaping the tiresome emotional overload which seems inherent to the story-line of the play itself...
...rationale--a feeble attempt to appease the stalwart defendants of the Fourth Amendment--justifies this slashing of the amendment by introducing the "good faith" concept, which stresses police officers' intentions rather than actions. "Particularly when law enforcement officers have acted in objective good faith or their transgressions have been minor," reads the majority opinion, "the magnitude of the benefit conferred on such guilty defendants offends basic concepts of the criminal justice system...