Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...semi-professional production of Death that opened Wednesday night at the Tufts Arena Theater is not without its moments of illumination. Unfortunately, the two principals playing Willy and his wife Linda are very weak. And in a play which pivots so strongly on those two figures, the weakness is fatal. Neither Norman Goodman as Willy nor Jan Lewis as Linda seem to have crawled inside their characters to think through the indisputable logic which leads those characters to say one thing rather than another at any point. They seem to focus their eyes always on the wrong thing--which...
...economic reforms are even extending to Italy's bloated bureaucracy. Deputies last week debated legislation to eliminate many useless, semi-autonomous state agencies. No one knows how many there are. "They are like the stars in the night sky," says Liberal Deputy Aldo Bozzi, whose own estimate is 55,000. There is, for instance, the "agency for the assistance of war orphans," the last of whom is by now 30 years old, and the "agency for the world exposition of 1942," which was never held because of World...
Battle of Algiers, showing this weekend at the Science Center, was made eight years ago and it has already become a political classic. The film is a semi-documentary about the decade-long fight against imperialism in the French colony of Algeria; it is a remarkable movie because in the subtlest and most subdued way it tells the truth about a contemporary political situation. In addition to its value as an historical document, the movie poses in clear and human terms the moral problem of terrorism. The Algerian battle cry that is sounded throughout is an amazing noise, one that...
...semi-final against Quinton Boat Club, Harvard was down by six seats at the start, but fought back to win it by three quarters of a length...
...declaration suggested that Spinola was willing to let sink his pet idea of a "Lusitanian Federation"-a close alliance of Portugal with semi-autonomous African territories. As the general's speech went on, however, a chill set in. In an apparent volte-face from his earlier tone, he outlined four gradual stages of decolonization, only at the end of which would the possibility of independence be broached...