Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until next year because of fear of the same treatment. His proposed use of general revenue funds to bail out an ailing and tax-regressive social security system was doomed from the start, thanks in large measure to Long. As for Carter's energy proposals, Long played a major role in gutting them in the Senate. Long probably will do the same in the four-week-old House-Senate conference committee on which he now serves--the President's intense efforts to counteract him notwithstanding. Whatever the conference does, gas-guzzling and well-head taxes are clearly dead...
Last Wednesday, the Corporation sent letters to the 50 companiers with holdings in South Africa in which it owns stock, outlining its policies on U.S. corporation operations in South Africa. The Corporation's letter emphasized the role of companies' employment practices in upgrading the conditions of non-white workers in South Africa...
Although the women have not taken a stand on the role of pimps, Weeks says most PUMA members do not have one. She added that the group's drive to promote prostitutes' self-sufficiency undermines the pimps' importance...
What may be the greatest task for PUMA, and certainly a prerequisite for any serious legislative reform, is educating the public to what PUMA interprets as the proper role of prostitutes. Weeks and several of the women at the Halloween party stated they have a right to be prostitutes, emphasizing the differences between themselves and women who commit several other crimes in addition to prostitution. Frank agrees, "There's nothing inherently violent about the sale of sex. There is something violent about illegal businesses...
...assuming a fluid, abstracted aesthetic function. Thursday's swan maidens were polished, nestling together like the coils of a spring, swirling and clustering in their white skirts like blown dandelion seeds. On the other hand, Laura Young's Swan Queen was, for all her technical competence, thoroughly disappointing. The role is a showcase of breathtaking choreography, but Young moved from pose to pose as though composing the isolated frames of a film strip. A sense of fluid, organic wholeness was entirely lacking, and her uninspired dramatic portrayal had the same quality of something artificially imposed. Young's rather heavy build...