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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crises, the second piece, fared much better. Red and orange leotards against a light blue back-drop were eye-catching: and the sight of dancers pulling each other along the floor by elastic bands around the waist or thigh drew laughter and put the audience on the performer's side, for the first time. Abandoning the slow death of Aeon, the dancers came alive, though they maintained regulation disjunctively by counterpoising two groups on separate parts of the stage...
...friend that "Algiers is fatal even to the most single-minded student." In 1945, at the end of World War II, Moslems staging an independence celebration in Setif clashed with the police and Europeans. Some 5,000 Moslems were killed, and the French began arresting everyone in sight, including Benkhedda and his fellow committee members on the Moslem Students Union. He spent six months in grim Barberousse prison-which the F.L.N. promises to raze and replace with a park in memory of the dead of the revolution...
There is no end in sight for the strike: Mr. Weinberg is not any more agreeable at the bargaining table than anywhere else. But the "go-slow" stand Governor Rockefeller and State Senate leader Walter J. Mahoney (R.) have taken on the legislation Mayor Wagner has requested can and should be rapidly reversed. Yet the pontifical Mr. Mahoney stated yesterday, "I will not be a party to any hastily contrived and poorly disguised effort by Mayor Wagner to sacrifice the passengers and the employees of the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines in preparation for a 20-cent fare...
...assumed power last May, gamblers and hustlers soon found themselves in road gangs, millionaires were stripped of their wealth, and frills like engagement rings, high weddings or elaborate funerals were forbidden. When goods continued to be smuggled in from Japan, Hong Kong and American PXs, General Park proclaimed: "The sight of luxury goods arouses wanton desires in the mind of the people. Burn them...
Miss Rutherford observing is a sight to behold: armed with a No. 4 iron, she prowls the grounds by night; or, tea service in hand, crouches in front of keyholes to listen to suspicious chatter--and all this with the majesty of an ocean-going ship. Eventually, of course she gets her man (for absolutely no one in the movie seems able ever to say no to Miss Rutherford), and the police apologize quite handsomely...