Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personality from an early age Discrimination based on sexual orientation is as heinous as any other form of arbitrary discrimination. When such discrimination is advocated as a social good by an officer of the University, much more than freedom of speech is at stake for a large segment of the student body...
...debate, then, is one in which people of good will differ about the means At HIID, the prevailing theory seems to be that if a regime is doing some good for a large segment of the population that otherwise would not be helped, it makes sense for the Institute to undertake a project...
...Lost, Found and Lost, premiered two weeks ago, for example, the subject is false sophistication. The music: airport Muzak. Charmaine sugarcoats the strings in one segment as dancers posture wearily in line, shuffling forward slowly. Fond of reconciling opposites, Taylor was struck by the idea in a dentist's office. "I used to ask him to turn off the wallpaper music," he says. "But then I started listening." Banality has never been as vibrant as it is under his direction. In black costumes with veils, designed by Artist Alex Katz, dancers stare into space, scratch, arrange hips and arms...
...very least the weekend was a satisfying segment to a young season. Scalise called it a "great" segment, and if that means it nurtures hope for the rest of the schedule...
Every few years, along comes a publishing sensation that is much more than just another bestseller. Usually it is a book that manages, by a combination of good timing and fresh, forceful presentation, to speak for, as well as to, a large segment of society on a serious subject. Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth, still two weeks away from its official publication date, is already just such a highbrow blockbuster. This erudite yet passionate treatise on the danger of nuclear war attracted widespread attention when it first appeared two months ago in three successive issues...