Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their main business is extortion. Prying protection money from taxi drivers, prostitutes, shopkeepers, housewives and small schoolchildren alike, they rake in as much as $350,000 a month. Cambridge-educated Lee Kuan Yew, becoming independent Singapore's first Prime Minister last June, set out on a crime cleanup, but even so, all forms of lawlessness have increased in Singapore this year, and already there have been 55 murders, v. 38 all last year. A month ago, when Triad hoodlums kidnaped Chinese Millionaire Chia Yee Soh and got a fat ransom for his return, Lee and his Cabinet declared...
Washington's TV quiz confessional (see SHOW BUSINESS) had a telling impact in Canada as the newly created, all-powerful Board of Broadcast Governors opened hearings last week on a strict set of ground rules to keep television in Canada as Canadian-and hopefully as pure-as driven snow. The Ottawa hearing had barely begun when an electrifying whisper raced through the room: "Van Doren has confessed." Any lingering hope for easy rules went up in smoke...
...debut of opulent-voiced Dutch Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn) Jenufa proved to be as haunting a work as Alban Berg's Wozzek (TIME, March 16). From its ominous opening xylophone solo to the final burst of harp-punctuated melody, the village tragedy unfolded without the benefit of set pieces, ensembles or arias. Heavily percussioned, the orchestra sometimes sank to a rich, nervous whisper flickering through the strings, sometimes burst forth in anguished, brassy cries. Throughout, Janacek's use of exotic folk idiom wrapped the opera in an eerie, Kafka-like haze that did much to add depth...
...life and departs from it, and by means of visual and atmospheric effects, of fantasy laced with reality, of prayers interrupted with jokes, it creates its own heightened world. Part of Playwright Chayefsky's purpose in doing this is to cast light on the world of reality, to set up symbolisms, set speculation going. At this more complex level, The Tenth Man fails. But as a theater piece, well staged by Tyrone Guthrie and often well acted, it is both striking and enjoyable...
McKeever had been aggressive before. Last year the same elbows scythed into Cal Quarterback Joe Kapp, and that time U.S.C. drew a 15-yd. penalty that set up a Cal touchdown (Cal won 14-12 and went on to the Rose Bowl). This season Mike McKeever was thrown out of the U.S.C.-Stanford game for sinking an elbow into Stanford Center Doug Pursell. And after Bates had been sent off to the hospital in the U.S.C.-Cal game, Mike McKeever chopped away, twice elbowed Cal Quarterback Pete Olson, was finally thrown out of the game-but only after opening...