Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reception Gorbachev shook hands with Yoko Ono and praised the contributions she and her late husband John Lennon had made to the peace movement. Mailer quipped that he had "cemented a peace pact" over dinner with Novelist Gore Vidal, with whom he has frequently feuded. Ustinov complained that a reporter from Radio Luxembourg woke him at 2 a.m. to ask what Gorbachev was going to say in a speech later that day. Everyone feasted on mounds of fresh strawberries -- a delicacy virtually unheard of in midwinter Moscow...
Back home in the U.S., meanwhile, the nation was watching endless hours of the television mini-series Amerika, in which Kris Kristofferson played the leader of a guerrilla movement opposing Soviet rule of the U.S. And where was Kris himself last week? Why, at the Moscow bash, listening to Gorbachev's speech. What better way to conquer America than with a peace party...
...only men. Bishop Leonard has collected 18,000 signatures from conservative Anglicans, some of whom say they might follow him into an independent schismatic church if the Church of England approves female priests. Proponents of ordination for women call this stand "blackmail." Says Margaret Webster, executive secretary of the Movement for the Ordination of Women: "They made those threats before women were ordained in the American Episcopal Church, but few people actually left...
Composed between 1946 and 1948, the Turangalila-Symphonie is a ten-movement, 80-minute showpiece for large orchestra, elemental in its power, yet seductive in its radiant beauty. The title derives from Sanskrit and roughly connotes "vitality" and "life," and thus gives some indication of both the piece's formidable substance and its stunning effect. Its thundering chord progressions and leaping, birdlike themes, its mixture of brutal dissonance and sunny consonance, make Turangalila-Symphonie one of the French composer's finest creations. It is difficult for both performer and listener, which may be why it is rarely played in concert...
...look at this as a really strong community effort and part of a movement towards greater awareness of the problem of hunger in America as well as around the world," said Esther Morgo...