Word: rice
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Audible Grumbling. Cairo and Jerusalem are aware of the fragility of such an arrangement. Both are under pressure from their war-weary people to keep the guns silent. In the face of rising prices for meat, rice and vegetables, inadequate transportation and telephone service, and a nagging water shortage in Cairo, Egyptians are beginning to grumble audibly-and Gamal Abdel Nasser is no longer around to hush them. Few are eager to resume the war with Israel. But President Anwar Sadat, who took over last month after Nasser's death, is also aware that significant numbers of his constituents...
With an appealing variegated score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and words by Tim Rice, Superstar builds to considerable impact and evocativeness, in part because it manages to wear its underlying seriousness lightly. What Rice and Webber have created is a modern-day passion play that may enrage the devout but ought to intrigue and perhaps inspire the agnostic young...
...composer, is an articulate champion of all kinds of music who grew up on Bill Haley but customarily recommends Stravinsky's taut, granitic Symphony in Three Movements "as an object lesson to any rock band that wants to play with precision and tight sound." Rice, 25, attended Lancing College, then spent two years working toward a career in law. Together they have fashioned a clever, youthful blend of skepticism and romantic questioning. Early on, Judas reflects on Christ...
Judas has rarely been treated so sympathetically as he is by Webber and Rice. According to the Judas of Superstar, his friend Jesus is a charismatic mortal-much like an adored rock singer or the leader of a radical movement -who has begun to believe in his own press clippings. "You really do believe∕ This talk of God is true." The Crucifixion is seen as the result of bungling self-indulgence, and Jesus' faith in his divinity, and hope of Resurrection, as delusions...
...producing enough wheat to meet its own needs. Neighboring West Pakistan, also a recipient of the miracle wheat, has already achieved that goal. Indeed, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations were so elated by Borlaug's work that they joined forces in establishing a similar international program for rice improvement headquartered in the Philippines...