Word: ren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production seems to squelch almost everyone connected with it. Only René Auberjonois as a faggy designer manages to filch an occasional moment of amusing exuberance. A number he does called Fiasco is the closest thing Coco has to a show-jogger-and is all too apt as a one-word critique...
Many adult Americans were shocked by the most obvious manifestations of the new romanticism-nudity, casual sex, obscenity, absurd dress, confrontation tactics. These were, of course, intended to shock. In describing some of his wilder contemporaries, Françoise René de Châteaubriand might have been talking about Abbie Hoffman or Jerry Rubin when they confronted a House Un-American Activities subcommittee: "They rig themselves up as comic sketches, as grotesques, as caricatures. Some of them wear frightful mustaches; one would suppose that they are going forth to conquer the world." The heroes upon whom the romantics model...
...Parenthood center; its director, Gloria Davis, complains that the clinic is so crowded with students that high school teenagers from the community are being squeezed out. Dr. James McClenahan, director of Stanford's health center, agrees that the. university itself should probably take over. Dr. Richard U'Ren, a psychiatrist at the university health center, thinks otherwise. "What the health center should be dispensing to unmarried students is advice," he says. "If students want to go beyond that, it should be their responsibility, not the university's." President Pitzer is expected to announce his decision some time...
...continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk of injury to the physical or mental health of the existing child (ren) of the family of the pregnant woman greater than if the pregnancy were terminated...
...bloodless takeover itself was un remarkable in a country which, during its 144-year history, has had 185 changes of government, mostly by coups. The ousted civilian President, Lawyer Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, was serving' as Vice President last April when President René Barrientos, the flamboyant ex-air chief, was killed in a helicopter crash. Ovando, the army chief and Barrientos' partner in the 1964 coup against Victor Paz Estenssoro, was in the U.S. at the time. Except for that fact, he almost certainly would have seized power then...