Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statement comes in reponse to the events of last Friday when a Tufts senior leapt on stage and tried to attack former contra head Adolfo Calero, who was about to begin his speech at Langdell Hall. Harvard Police dragged Joshua Laub from the scene, and the speech was cancelled...
...successfully discarded the supporting cast and stage settings that are the furniture of ordinary narration, and what remained was an incandescent concentration on her strange, enchanted childhood among the Murani tribesmen who hunted near her father's East African farm, and then, later, on her two adult passions, horses and aviation. The result is more than an occasional "Yes, but . . ." murmured by the bewitched reader. Did she really kill a warthog with a spear as a young teenager? And just how did Tom Campbell Black, the great flyer who was her teacher, fit into the story...
...told him to lay off, since they were both in the same business. "Oh, no, we're not," shot back Friedman. That is the point. Do the highly charged careers of these television stars require them, even against their better judgment, to prance shamelessly on the electronic stage? Must their efforts to capture the President with their big-bore cameras and intimidating snarls become a prime-time animal act, information be damned...
...Mantle try to hide his drinking. But moments of true emotional celebration are no longer greeted with a smile. Spontaneous outbursts must be kept behind close doors; in public, good citizens behave with reserve. Consequently, it's deemed better to have the players brought onto a pre-built reception stage to recite truisms to the television cameras about the joys of victory...
...President, may have called in his debts last week. When it became clear that Aquino wanted to keep her friend Arroyo in the Cabinet -- and to shunt Ramos into a less strategic post, or perhaps even an ambassadorship -- the general balked. Amid a sudden rumor that loyal generals would stage a coup if Arroyo was retained, Aquino relented. "If Cory had her choice, as she used to," said a Western analyst in Manila, "she would have kept Joker on and kicked Ramos upstairs. But to her dismay, she found out she could do neither." On TV last week, she assured...