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...Memphis closing from a cortege of other newspaper deaths in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Sarasota, Fla., Tampa, Washington and, provided a buyer is not found soon, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, it was the Press-Scimitar's swinish attitude toward reporters from outside. The Press-Scimitar would shove a camera in the face of a dying leukemia victim, yet when it came time for itself to perish, Editor Milton R. Britten wrote in a memo, "I don't want anybody with pompadours and gleaming teeth in our newsroom with Minicams on the last day. Nor do I want...
...dance for American Ballet Theater, Mikhail Baryshnikov is alone onstage. He is elegantly dressed in pleated, '30s-style trousers, the kind that Cary Grant or Katharine Hepburn used to wear in the movies. This attractive, provocative first glance recalls Tharp's triumphant Push Comes to Shove (1976); that ballet began with Baryshnikov's sidling out in a vaguely Slavic tunic and a sassy bowler hat. No doubt about it, Tharp understands this Russian-American firebird better than any other choreographer. She sees the virtuoso and the man in exile, and above all she understands the star power...
Things get ugly once. During the intermission hobnobbing session, scuffle breaks out, as a roaringly drunk patron takes on in rapid succession a woman, her escort, a bouncer and numerous gallant penguins. The Cambridge cops pull up, and, after a messy struggle shove the man, his mouth bleeding, into the squad...
...warmups he would at one point put his stick aside and have his teammates blast low shots at him, which he would practice stopping with his stick-hand blocker. In a game, he could often stop a low shot and no amount of jamming or pushing could shove the disk any further...
...social and political concessions for themselves, the ANC was sparked to activism just one year later, when the white ruling regime enacted the Natives Land Act. The act forbade Africans from buying or living on land in designated "white" areas. To enforce it, a massive program of national eviction shove J African residents out of entire regions. Meanwhile, a model for resistance presented itself when South Africa's Indian population organized a partly successful effort to combat the discrimination to which they were subjected. A young lawyer named Gandhi led an Indian passive resistance campaign that he later applied...