Word: races
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curtain rises, audience members in the front section of the orchestra seats are immersed in pale blue light while characters race up the aisle before mounting the stage. Amidst the ensuing Christmas party and magic show, Dr. Drosselmeyer (Lazlo Bardo), the eccentric godfather of Clara, dominates the first scene. If his distinctive air and cute magic tricks fail to dazzle, then his huge velvet cape undoubtedly will. Whether twirling or flying off after Clara and her prince to the Enchanted Forest, this cape has a life of its own. The other most prominent character is, of course, Clara (Janine Ronayne...
South African author Coetzee's latest continues exploration of race...
...Lucys. She resigns herself to living in the harsh, concrete realities of the present without resorting to any form of escape. She seems to accept the violence done to her and Petruss encroachment on her land as a kind of indirect punishment for the historical wrongs committed by her race. To Lurie, this is at first incomprehensible. He still needs to have recourse to avenues of escape from realityphysical pleasure; a fantasy about writing an opera on the poet Byron and his mistress Teresa; a longing for a former, more heroic self; anger and outrage. But the novel traces...
...them, actually. There was Little Man, who was you know, a little man. There was Gonzo the horse. There was a third one, I think it may have just been called monster, who was, like, a monster. And my mom tells me stories where I used to have races with them and I would race around the house and my mom is like "Todd, Todd, why are you running around?" and I'm like "Well, I'm having a race with Gonzo and Little Man" and just kept running around. Then the next time I came around...
Noguera first publicly announced his negotiations with Harvard at the end of an Oct. 26 lecture for his class on race and ethnicity in education because, he told the Daily Cal, he wanted to stop a flurry of rumors...