Word: pioneering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harlem events are sacred to born-again visitors: Amateur Nights on Wednesdays and church on Sundays. Book a table for Sunday brunch at Sylvia's, Harlem's friendliest eatery. But first, for God's sake, go to the Abyssinian Baptist Church. The pioneer architect Charles W. Bolton designed the church as an amphitheater, and for good reason: its pastor was the spell-weaving Adam Clayton Powell Sr. His son won even more fame, first as a preacher there, then as Harlem's first black Congressman. The bold spirits of both men inform the place...
...Citizen Welles covers more ground and digs deeper, revealing an artistic nomad whose life had too many ups, downs and lateral movements to be treated as a sales chart. The author is a great admirer, crediting Welles as an originator of the film noir genre and a technical pioneer whose influence can be detected in dozens of films. He even notes that the Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes has acknowledged that the structure of his book The Death of Artemio Cruz was lifted from Citizen Kane. But Brady is prudent about using the word genius, an encomium more freely handed...
...conference, entitled "Fundamental Reform of the Schools: What Does It Look Like?" was sponsored by the non-profit Pioneer Institute...
...wanted to go to school," Fernandez told The Sporting News. "I wasn't ready to go play rookie ball in Montana [the Brewers would have started him in Helena of the Pioneer League]. I was looking forward to pro ball, but not at 18. When I am 21, I will be more successful in making that jump...
...best drama comes from Norman. His intensity never wavers as he portrays Lee's elaborately constructed facade of scummy, violent toughness. Lee is a hardened pioneer--one never doubts his stories of adventure in the American desert, the "true" West of this play's title. Yet behind his belching, swaggering bravado, Norman allows Lee's well-concealed dream of respectability and acceptance to leak through his psychological defenses...