Word: ryder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from others. Princeton Demographer Norman B. Ryder notes that "there is less likelihood of ethnic conflict when all groups are growing...
...Circle Repertory Theater Co., The Sea Horse is the third small triumph in a row, following the still-running When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? and The Hot I Baltimore. In the past couple of seasons C.R.T.C. has be come the most fecund off-off-Broadway group. Each of these productions made a successful transition to off-Broadway, a dramatic terrain that no longer bustles with the creative vitality it once...
...from time to time. The plot is infernally tangled and unrelieved by humor. There is a good, loud, nasty showdown in a subterranean garage, and an effectively brutal scene of a mass mob assassination. The Mafiosi, portrayed with almost parodistic seriousness by the likes of Martin Balsam and Alfred Ryder, hire Viet Nam veterans to do their dirty work, a bit of practicality that also passes for covert social comment. The Stone Killer concludes in sober fashion with a sermon on evil, which, we are told, is pervasive and unavoidable. Rather like Charles Branson-Michael Winner movies, apparently...
...lawyer can later be made to testify about their talks. Even this has been used to explain the actions of the Watergate lawyers. Whatever they did, the argument goes, was done for the President as client. That, too, is a poor justification. In a 1967 Virginia case, Attorney Richard Ryder took stolen money and a sawed-off shotgun from his client and stored them in his own safe-deposit box. A U.S. district court, citing Benjamin Cardozo's observation that "the privilege takes flight if the relation is abused," ruled that the special lawyer-client relationship could...
...zwieback but a drink. There is no shortage of wry, clever novels by and about overwrought young mothers. And initially this unassuming first novel by Johanna Davis seems to be a fairly conventional example of obstetrical fiction. Its heroine, a likable, gifted young Manhattan woman named Camilla Ryder, is dismayed during her second pregnancy to discover that her mind has gone womby. She hears voices, sees things that aren't there, frightens her husband with screams in the night, gobbles uppers given to her by a dippy friend and downers prescribed by her disastrous psychiatrist. In the supermarket...