Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billed by Republican Senators as a roast of Jimmy Carter and his Attorney General Griffin Bell. But when the Senate Judiciary Committee began to consider Benjamin R. Civiletti's nomination as Deputy Attorney General last week, the mood was surprisingly low-key. Only a narrow attack was mounted on the ouster of Philadelphia's U.S. Attorney, David Marston, the issue expected to dominate the hearings this week. Said Wyoming Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop: "There was no reason why Marston should not have been fired as a Republican; the only question is the timing...
...cantonal and municipal elections, the Socialist-Communist alliance has gained impressive strength; Communist mayors now rule 75 cities. Seven months ago the dynamic left appeared an easy winner over the squabbling governing coalition in the elections. But when the Communists broke with their Socialist partners last September, the political mood began to change...
...film's most sustained triumph belongs to Clayburgh. Erica is the role this gifted actress has deserved for years, and now that she has it, she doesn't fool around. She swings gracefully from mood to mood-from hostile confrontations to hysterical shrink sessions to intimate and comic romantic interludes. She even dances a daffy Swan Lake in her T shirt and panties. Though An Unmarried Woman is otherwise populated by busted couples, Clayburgh and Mazursky make a sublime pair. - Frank Rich
...same way, Cunningham's dances go beyond emotional mood to achieve a sense of archetypal form. Familiar gestures are the stuff of much Cunningham choreography, but abstracted onstage from their ordinary context they appear as the organic prototypes of the motions of day-to-day living, acquiring a startling purity the more integral for its understatement. One's encounter with the choreography becomes a series of luminous recognitions; dance stripped of all overt meaning works on the viewer's mind with the power of symbol. And the large structures, wholly intent on unfolding patterns of motion and relation, resonate instead...
...their Soviet and Cuban advisers, who are now thought to total about 6,000, were clearly gaining in their drive to oust Somalian forces from Ethiopia's Ogaden desert region. But if the Somalis were running scared, there was little sign of it in their capital, Mogadishu. The mood was all but jubilant, as the government announced a general mobilization and inducted 30,000 volunteers, including women and 15-year-olds, in a national militia...