Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparatively tiny palette, limited by the capabilities of the voice and a narrow conception of permissible sounds. But within this narrow framework, lies a compelling internal logic of tension and release, of continuity and contrast. A good performance, like that of Saturday night, can help us to shed our modern biases, and permit us to appreciate the music on its own terms...
...women went into foreign mission work, because it was socially acceptable. Women were among the first critics of the U.S. government's American Indian policy. They were Socialists. They were Zionists. And they were capable of deceit and hypocrisy, as in the 1890 s when the suffrage movement shed its historical commitment to blacks in order to bring white Southern women into its ranks...
...basis of last year's successful Teeth of Mons Herbert, I can recommend this unreservedly. Phil LaZebnik is a farceur of great range, and Mintz--if it's half as good as the people working on it have told everyone--should be excellent. Don't expect anything to shed any light on serious questions of birth, copulation or death, but this might be the intellectual's alternative to the Pudding Show anyway, since you can hardly avoid seeing at least one farce this week. Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday at the Agassiz at 8:30 p.m., as well as next weekend...
...voices - from all sorts of prophets, as trologers, witches. Every oak grove is "enchanted timber." The Golden Bough seems to coexist with the Gospels on these pages, rinding common ground in the ritual of sacrifice. From the first, Keneally's virgin, who never even menstruated, is predestined to shed blood as scapegoat for her unworthy King. "All she wanted to do," he sums up, "was achieve her own victimhood...
From Sirhan to Munich, from hijacking of planes to highway robbery at the gas pumps, the more notoriety they receive, the more innocent blood they shed and the harder their bargaining position on oil becomes...