Word: portions
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Kenyon Martin, the artistic director of the company, conceived and directed the show and serves as the principal actor in its first portion, Beyond Words. He is an engaging mime with a bouyantly-light and sure feeling for comedy. He makes his varied talents readily plain during the nine short sketches of classical mime which combine to make Beyond Words the perfect introduction to this too-long ingnored stage craft. Dressed in clown's costume and white face, working without props and only occasionally with music, Martin almost miraculously manages to create a palpable world out of nothing...
...Durkheim (one might also add Nietzsche)--illustrates this attitude further. Whatever truths they have to teach, and they certainly offer some, all of these writers to one degree or another made it their special interest, and a matter central to their most influential thinking, to cast doubt on some portion of traditional religion and theology. It may be difficult to ignore such intellectual giants, and even inappropriate in courses devoted to the history of ideas primarily; but one must wonder why so few constructive alternative views have been revived or created since Weber and Durkheim first made their great impact...
...Three Humphrey backers-Minnesota Grain Millionaire Dwayne O. Andreas, his daughter and a friend-formed a limited partnership called Jackson & Co. and pumped $276,000 into it. The "predominant portion" of the money came from the sale of shares in a firm headed by Andreas. All of the funds then went to the Humphrey campaign, exceeding the legal limit of $5,000 for individual contributions that was in effect until April 7, 1972. Andreas also made a $25,000 donation to the Nixon campaign-and the cash turned up in the Miami bank account of Convicted Watergate Burglar Bernard...
...there are those two short consecutive scenes that inflict the words "banished" and "banishment" on us no less than 26 times. Not even General St. Pe's repeated references to his "seventeen years" of marriage in Waltz of the Toreadors can come close to the numbing annoyance of this portion of Romeo...
...undergraduate crowd common in Square restaurants. In exchange for somewhat expensive prices, the Patisserie provides several varieties of croissants, coffee, sandwiches and pastry. And if you are fortunate to find a seat it is yours for as long as it takes you to read the paper or write a portion of your current manuscript...