Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While worrying about the plight of the ghetto, Lindsay also gives some hope to the city's despairing -and departing -middle class and its huge reservoir of talent. His interest and participation in cultural activities and his just plain hijinks -capering on the Manhattan Bridge with a film crew to encourage motion-picture production in the city or playing touch football in Central Park -are reviving the city's ability to enjoy itself. If his energy and courage hold out, Lindsay may just manage to make New York City more livable as well as more governable...
...reversed if it is the recipient who is struggling to prove his intellectual status-then the book becomes a compliment, where Valley of the Dolls would have been an insult. This is particularly true with very good-looking girls, who always want to be taken seriously for their intellect (plain girls must never be given books, except possibly love poems...
...political agents. No North Vietnamese regulars operate in the Delta, but the Viet Cong main force units are equipped with modern Chinese weaponry that equals in firepower the South Vietnamese force that has opposed them up to now. Principal Red sanctuaries are the mangrove swamps along the coast, the Plain of Reeds, which is alternately under monsoon waters or a brick-hard bed of dried mud in the dry season, and the U Minh "Forest of Darkness" infested by poisonous snakes and king-size stinging ants as well as by the Viet Cong...
...Stranglehold. What disturbed critics was a White Paper in which the government made plain that for the most part the freeze would persist at least through mid-1967, and perhaps for long thereafter. The decision may or may not have been wise, but it took some courage. "There is no joy in this White Paper," said the London Times. "It all adds up to a squeeze that is becoming a stranglehold...
...subtlety to this classically simple (though simply unclassical) design. The costumes possess the same flexibility through simplicity. This was especially valuable for the chameron chorus which, throughout the opera, moves in and out of the role of a troop of witches. The blocking and choreography, however, seemed too plain and somewhat stiff, with the exception of an inspired milling, circling witches' dance early in the third...