Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sale of the Inman Collection scares those who think that the sale of valuable materials is a poor precedent for the University to set. What is worse, however, is that the University planners have literally forced the Peabody's board into the position of selling one collection to save the rest...
...control of all the people and subjects each of them to similar humiliations. Comparison with The Petrified Forest is inevitable. As in that movie, most of the action takes place in one room, in which a group of diverse types is held hostage by one violent man. Both are set in roadside cafes in the Southwest. But many of the elements which made The Petrified Forest a great film are missing in Red Ryder. The most important of these is restraint. Bogey was actually at his hammiest in Petrified Forest, but he communicated with the economy of a professional. Gortner...
...Year's Eve in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and I thought I must have had a few too many beers because I noticed the guy next to me at the bar was wearing a set of furry pants, furry arms, and furry paws. What's more, he sported a bright red and white striped sweater beneath a head that distinctly resembled the taxidea taxis in my high school biology book...
...establishes between actor and musical instrument reflects his assimilation and digestion of Beckett's rhetoric: Kim spent two years composing Narratives, finishing in 1975 just in time for the master's 75th birthday. Kim established a precedent for this performance in Exercises en Route, his first successful attempt to set the spoken word to music. In this new form which he calls "Music/Theatre," Kim draws upon the improvizational abilities of the Ariel Music Ensemble...
Gennari added that he and his roommates had circulated petitions Saturday at local bars opposing the proposed rise in the drinking age to 21 and calling for a test period with the drinking age set at 19. Gennari said most people he talked to think the drinking age should...