Word: movement
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Abbott, 33, a Cambridge history graduate and now a press officer for the local council in Lambeth, says her politics was influenced by U.S. civil rights activists. "People like me in their 30s had our ideas shaped by Angela Davis and the black-power movement," she says. Grant, who heads the local council in Haringey, has been unflatteringly labeled Barmy Bernie by conservative tabloids. It was he who declared that police had been given a "bloody good hiding" after a 1985 race riot in Tottenham during which a patrolman was hacked to death. Grant has since kept a relatively...
...half a world away from the desert sands of Libya, but distance has not deterred Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi from making a number of peculiar Pacific overtures. In the past year Gaddafi's agents have offered arms and cash to rebels in Papua New Guinea, encouraged an aboriginal separatist movement in Australia, shipped weapons to dissidents in New Caledonia and tried to open an office in the island republic of Vanuatu...
Vanuatu's Lini, one of the few leaders in the region who defend Libya, argues that Gaddafi merely wants to send economic aid to the impoverished island states and help the Kanak independence movement in New Caledonia, a cause endorsed even by Australia. Nonetheless, Hawke plans to make the Libyan threat a topic of discussion at this weekend's meeting of the 13-nation South Pacific Forum, and has dispatched a representative to brief member governments on the need to send Gaddafi's men packing...
...heads the Walkers Club of America, teach tyro trudgers the race-walking technique. The heel of the front foot must touch the ground before the toe of the back foot pushes off; the leading leg must be straight at the knee as the body passes over it. The arm movement is a sprinter's, pumping diagonally across to the body's center line...
...piece, commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony for its 75th anniversary, is a 20-minute essay divided into four movements, each with a quotidian title: "Dawn," "Daylight," "Dusk" and "Darkness." Such tone painting is not surprising, for Harbison's music generally contains a strong theatrical element, reflected in his predilection for opera and song cycle. The symphony, however, is not some Americanized La Mer (whose first movement is titled "From Dawn to Noon on the Sea"); the sun may come up and the sun may go down, but it never sets on his cool rational spirit...