Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still photographs, romanticizing the harshness of country life, portraying Suzanne's parents as priggish, old-fashioned country people. The severity of the surroundings is so exaggerated that instead of echoing Suzanne's misery it just makes her look silly and implausible. Would a hip woman from Paris really resort to practicing her typing with the cows in the barn to avoid disturbing her crotchety old father in the house...
...Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). Just as he could roar thunderously in the Te Deum, so Berlioz could write with reverent calm in this exquisite tapestry on the early events in Jesus' life. The music is kept deliberately simple by a chamberistic use of the orchestra and frequent resort to medieval modes and other archaic devices. Yet how fresh, urgent and devoted the result, notably in the central section-The Flight into Egypt. Continuing his pioneering Berlioz cycle, Colin Davis achieves one of his grandest accomplishments on disc...
...which the disaffected husbands in Passing Game, now at Manhattan's American Place Theater, hope to end their marriages. Richard (William Atherton) and Henry (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) want their wives to be murdered. To that end, they have rented cottages at a deserted lakefront resort. The reason there are few vacationers around is that some demented killer has declared open season on them. Wishfully, the two men want the phantom murderer to choose their wives for his next rifle fodder. Barring that, the pair make a pact. Richard will shoot Henry's wife Rachel (Novella Nelson...
From then on, though the scoring remained even, the first half belonged to Harvard. A tight zone defense worked wonders, forcing Bentley to resort to lots of ineffectual outside shooting. Field and forward Hildy Meyers played aggressively, and Caryn Curry, the team's mainstay, pulled things together by grabbing a total of ten rebounds and scoring seven field goals for the night...
...herself against physical and emotional attack." Though self-defense is still an adequate excuse for violence only in immediate, severe danger, now, notes New Jersey Lawyer Robert Ansell, "the cumulative effect of beatings on a woman's consciousness is often considered. A woman may well be allowed quicker resort to a weapon than a man." That worries some lawmen. Says Sheriff Lawrence Schmies of Waupaca: "I wonder if these people know what they're doing. If they get their way, there's going to be a lot of killings...