Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idol, Richard Wright. Perhaps the most heartbreaking essay of the lot is "Alas, Poor Richard," the chronicle of their split. In it, Baldwin describes Wright's anger over a perceived insult and gives his hero's feelings full credit. Baldwin acknowledges his own insensitivity in using Wright as a "springboard" for his own ideas, but he refuses to let his culpability shake loose his convictions. He concludes: "The war in the breast between blackness and whiteness, which caused Richard such pain, need not be a war. It is a war which just as it denies both the heights and depths...
...term impact, judging from the networks' preliminary plans for fall, may be substantial. This week's episode, with Tony Orlando playing a counselor for troubled teens, is the pilot for a potential spin-off. Next week's season finale, with Lena Horne as guest star, may also be the springboard for a new series. Both CBS and ABC are developing their own comedies about black families, obviously inspired by Cosby's success, and the show is being credited with reviving network interest in the sitcom form in general...
...record was held by Greg Louganis of UCLA--who went on to win gold medals in both platform and springboard diving events at last summer's XXIII Olympiad...
...curiosity value associated with any first. But the Met delivers the goods: in the hands of a major conductor like James Levine, Porgy and Bess emerges as something ; richer than the overblown musical comedy it once appeared to be. Although many singers have used Porgy as a springboard to fame (Leontyne Price, for example, in 1952), the Met production reveals it as essentially a choral opera. It is in choruses like Gone, Gone, Gone and Headin' for the Promise' Lan' and the extraordinary Oh, Doctor Jesus, in which six independent musical lines, notated without bars, move freely against a hummed...
That's what happened last year, when the Crimson used Duke as a springboard to its best Ancient Eight Finish in 40 years...