Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition Labor Party, led by Edward Seaga. An able economist, Seaga faces the ethnic disadvantage of his Lebanese ancestry; he is light-skinned in an overwhelmingly black nation. Nonetheless, he stands a good chance of winning if there is more violence and the economy continues to stagger. Many Jamaicans are convinced that will be the case. In the sad words of a current hit by Ernie Smith, one of Kingston's top reggae singers, "As we fight one another fe de power and de glory, jah kingdom goes to waste...
...remember my father with the disease," recalls Mrs. Rose Marie Silva of Livermore, Calif. "When I saw my brother stagger for the first time, I just knew he had it." For years, family members, some of whom believed erroneously that the problem was congenital syphilis, kept the disease a secret in their clan. Finally, Mrs. Silva broke the silence. After reading about a family afflicted with a similar hereditary illness (TIME, Jan. 25, 1971) and carrying the clippings in her purse for three years, she finally wrote the National Genetics Foundation last February and asked for help. The result...
...balding head, his glasses glinting and the polyeurethane over the windows smoking as I thanked him and plunged out into the pitch and ran a path I couldn't see to the road, running like the devil just for the hell of it. Not to wait for Daniel to stagger up the path on Bridget's arm, asking what was wrong and then, after saying something really must be done, passing out in the backseat of the Delac, on his sweetheart's lap. Not to walk back to Peg's picking my way through the blackness with a load tread...
...seek aid, and enters his duplex office to find it on fire--huge velveteen curtains, bargello chairs, plush carpeting. His clothing catches fire as well. We lose sight of the human perspective as the director shifts into slow motion and we watch only a vaguely human figure on fire stagger through a room, framed by flames as floor, ceiling and walls burn. (Early in the film there are a couple of graphic shots of charred skin, but--after these few nauseating moments--the death is as distanced as the inaudible thud of a body falling 135 stories...
...skillfully tightened plot and imaginative details of direction make the pasteboard figures of the original Pericles into fuller, livelier characters. Pericles becomes almost a spoof as a paragon of nobility, rising early to practice his jousting while the other revelers of the night before stagger on stage with crushing hangovers. Dionyza's jealousy becomes a real facet of personality in the slinky character onstage, while in the original it is an awkward device to advance the plot. Sections of the new play are quite comic, but the heroes are never ludicrous. This is a difficult task for any company...