Word: ob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each other, utterly without benefit of story. Kurys tries for the same artful simplicity. She introduces an appealing girl of 13 named Anne (Eléonore Klarwein) and her more worldly and matter-of-fact sister Frédérique (Odile Michel), who is 15. The director merely ob serves their small adventures as they grow a year older. Anne, a bit disdainful, watches Frédérique conduct a flirtation at the seashore; the two of them endure the strictures of a frightful day school; they cope with their mother (Anouk Ferjac), and she with them; Anne...
...contradictory interpretation of the social and political reality of Afro-Americans. On the one hand were the horrors of slavery and the middle passage, while on the other hand were the possibilities of redemption and affirmation of the humanistic ideal of man which the Christian religion promised, and which ob-jectively spoke of the noblest ideals of man. It was, I suspect, the attempt to bring forth a synthesis of these two antagonistic poles that became the modus operandiof the literature...
...made from sticks, chicken wire and mud by the California artist Deborah Butterfield. There is also a hilarious piece of funkiness by a Texas sculptor, James Surls, representing a tornado chewing through the roof of a church; Surls' debt to that master of buckeye surrealism, H.C. Westermann, is ob vious enough, but the image has a wobbly comic-strip blatancy about it that carries conviction...
Dartmouth did its best to jettison the shackles of the Crimson's gridiron curse over them, as classy OB Buddy Teevens drove the Woodsmen 67 yards for a touchdown midway through the final quarter. Halfback Jeff Dufresne took ball on eight of the 11 plays, finally scooting off tackle from the one to make...
...State, like the rest of the country, continues to have a modest housing high in the "affordable" $55,000 to $75,000 price range. But buyers are beginning to resist the three-bedroom tract house squished onto a postage-stamp lot for $122,900 - and a 10% mortgage rate. Ob serves David Shulman, a member of Governor Jerry Brown's housing task force...