Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spoken to only one head t.f. and he said there was only one student who did not attend his exam," Swain said...
...satire, and that is why Tanner '88 is a unique pleasure. The twice-monthly HBO series, directed by Robert Altman and written by Garry Trudeau, follows the campaign of one Jack Tanner, a fictional presidential candidate played by Michael Murphy. He has stumped on location in New Hampshire, spoken at fund raisers and debated strategy with campaign aides, exactly paralleling -- and sometimes commenting on -- the actual presidential race...
...returned at noon yesterday from a dinner in Washington, D.C., for Harvard alumni in Congress, said in an interview yesterday that he had not spoken to Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 about the protest, and that he had received only second-hand information about the situation at the Law School...
...with the coming of sound. So a headlong romantic like Ken Russell will embrace opera on film like a first, lost love. For him, opera is performed at peak volume because the feelings it surveys are big and deep. Matters of lust and death are too important to be spoken; they must be sung, shouted, thundered, wept -- and shown, in all their delirious force. At its vagrant best, Aria reminds viewers of the original arithmetic of cinema: sight + sound = sensation...
...occupied territories, al-Wazir is certain to be hailed as a martyr. Though his military duties made him responsible for some of Fatah's bloodiest acts, he was widely perceived as a moderate within the P.L.O. The soft-spoken guerrilla leaves behind a wife, five children and a young generation of frustrated Palestinians who, inspired by al-Wazir's death, can be expected to resort to new acts of violence...