Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rhythm with lyrics to match, in idioms such as Motown, salsa or samba. He collaborates well with his predecessor. There's a different kind of earthiness in each of them, and a lively counterpoint develops between the out-front 20th-century numbers and the Shakespearean run-around of the spoken parts...
Jennifer Marre's Julia stands out from the rest of the cast with Elizabethan integrity. Her singing is competent, her spoken Spanish sassy, but her forte lies in the elegant enunciation of Shakespeare's lines with a pleasing hint of an English accent. Her waiting-woman Lucetta (Annie Fine) has the only vaguely Puerto Rican visage of the lot and sings with stern indignation about "The Land of Betrayal." Judy Banks as Silvia dances with enough seductive verve to convince you that indeed she "wouldn't know a spiritual relationship...
...absolutely certain that majority rule is coming in Rhodesia and that there will be an independent Zimbabwe. They are not going to accept words. They're looking for concrete specific actions. Wherever I went in Africa I met a wall of disbelief about virtually any words that were spoken by Mr. Smith. So I put it to Mr. Smith and the Rhodesian Front that they could make a start by changing now the racial discrimination that they have in their legislation...
...streets. The population has grown to some 17,000, reinforced by many non-Basque migrants from other parts of Spain. Unemployment is relatively low: the three silverware factories and the old arms plant are doing acceptable business. Monday -the day the bombs came-is still market day. Basque is spoken widely, and the old folks say that the young are more radical than anyone in their pursuit of Basque rights and Basque autonomy...
...will be a deliberate show of support for Carter on human rights, one of Hesburgh's passions. Hesburgh will award degrees to Bishop Donal Lament, who was ousted from Rhodesia; Stephen Cardinal Kim, who has fought against government repression in South Korea; and Paul Cardinal Arnes, who has spoken out against human rights violations in Brazil...