Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oakland has always lived in the shadow of its glittery sister city across the bay, and that went for its politicians too. But this week's mayoral primary could change that. Former California Governor Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown Jr. is far ahead of his opponents--46% support among registered voters, vs. single digits for all the others. If he gets 50%, there will be no need for a runoff...
...tradition but also a shrewder sense of how to build on it--or trash it. For the rest of us, it renders a part of the past perpetually present, and it forces us to view the present differently: behind the young actor, we can't help seeing the shadow of Brando. What's more, right in front of our noses, our era, our present, is becoming part of the retrievable past for the 21st century...
...film of Nijinsky dancing, no one questions his place of honor in the history of 20th century ballet. Even if her beleaguered company should someday close its doors and her dances cease to be performed, Graham will doubtless be remembered in much the same way, for the shadow she cast was fully as long. Did she invent modern dance? No, but she came to embody it, arrogantly and spectacularly--and, it appears, permanently. "When the legend becomes fact," said the newspaper editor in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, "print the legend." The legend of Martha Graham...
...while Bok's shadow as an "educationpresident" still falls across the Harvard campus,Rudenstine may have a far smaller historicalpresence and little institutional record outsidethe Campaign...
Unfortunately it was an 11-4 loss and eliminated Harvard from contention for a spot in the national tournament. But the Crimson rebounded with a 9-4 win over Brown, who played its own season in Harvard's shadow...