Word: ring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside the city, at key junctions, was a second concentric ring of roadblocks manned by police and thousands of soldiers called in from around the country. Some ten miles farther, the third and outermost ring of roadblocks was set up. As drivers discovered to their discomfort, police stopped cars and leveled their guns at them, while soldiers stood at the ready in the background, sometimes behind sandbags. Tens of thousands of vehicles have been checked. Hundreds of suspicious youths, in particular, have been pulled into local police stations for verification of identity. Suspects have been detained, questioned, released. Clues have...
...cunning. The plot is diabolically clever. Theodora (Teddy) Ottinger, the world's leading female pilot and bisexual author of the bestselling Beyond Motherhood, stumbles into the service of Jim Kelly, a golden-haired Viet Nam vet who fancies himself Kalki, the Hindu god whose job it is to ring down the curtain on the material universe. Teddy needs the money; she is behind in alimony payments to her ex-husband...
...Complete Book of Running, Fixx (1) 2. My Mother/My Self, Friday (3) 3. The Ends of Power, Haldeman (2) 4. The Amityville Horror, Anson (4) 5. The Second Ring of Power, Castaneda (7) 6. All Things Wise and Wonderful, Herriot (5) 7. Gnomes, Huygen & Poortvliet (8) 8. The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, Tobias 9. Coming into the Country, McPhee (6) 10. Looking Out for #1, Ringer...
...Garden Center, which is right across the street (Seventh Avenue between 32nd and 33rd Streets). During the vacation, the Garden will be busy day and night with the antics of Ringling Brothers. Barnum and Bailey's Circus. The annual spring stop in New York of the world-famous three-ring extravaganza fills the arena with multiple shows every day. Ticket prices range from $9.50 to $40. Sports fans: the Knicks will be in town on March 28 and 30, while the Rangers will play hockey on the 27th and 29th...
Expressed generally, Fine's theme is one of transformation from the disharmony of the single individual to the harmony of the group, symbolized by the ring. This change is represented in the dance by the structure of the music, as it changes from groups of seven beats to groups of eight. It also occurs in the movement of the dancers as they change from interacting in groups of three to interacting in groups of four. According to Fine, "the numbers three and seven cry out to be four and eight. When they change it represents the realization of harmony...