Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protesters, students dressed in black dresses and faculty members in academic robes and mortarboards, carried placards reading "Handed to Simmons on a Silver Platter," and "Academic Genocide...
...energy as speedily as possible. Rather than structure their piece into a series of discrete events, as did the two established choreographers, Jeanette Rive and Christian Swenson blurred the lines of their choreography. One could never say what was happening at any exact moment. Costumed in gray leotards and silver hoods, the two ended the piece by melting in a heap as the music of Larry Coryell and Oscar Sala petered...
Summa is the biggest catchall; besides its airline and TV interests, it presides over the hotels and casinos in Nevada and the Bahamas, a helicopter manufacturer, 1,200 largely dormant silver and gold mines and huge tracts of undeveloped land in Nevada and California. If Hughes' heirs are forced to raise money to pay the federal inheritance tax, parts of Summa may have to be sold...
Sexism and its cultural and tradition-linked contradictions emerge in highly charged exchanges between an intense, riveting Arthur (Jeffrey Rubin) and Ala (Diana Silver). Arthur argues for a practical marriage based on "pleasure and profit" while hypocritically undermining his criticism of loose mores with a blunt display of sexual aggression...
This volume is the second part of a crime-and-punishment trilogy that be gan with Blue Eyes (1974) and will be completed with the publication next fall of The Education of Patrick Silver, in which Isaac rides again. The prolific Charyn, 38, an associate professor of English at the City University of New York, also has two other works in progress, including the history of an imaginary European kingdom called Whalebone. A resourceful scavenger of story ideas, Charyn says the inspiration for the Isaac trilogy came from night mares of his brother, a homicide detective in the New York...