Word: starks
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...American dance, Artistic Director Bruce Marks noted: "The message is the movement, with the idea that all movement is dance." Indeed, the trio of works is unified by its defiance of convention. Cunningham's "Breakers" features dancers in sharp and unpredictable poses, arms, legs and torsos working in stark juxtaposition. In "Company B," Taylor evokes the swing era of the 1940s, while poking fun at characteristic swing moves with its frantically shifting pace. Tharp's "In the Upper Room" combines modern, classical, even aerobic dance elements with exhiliarating boldness and energy...
...Poverty is over, that America must cut her losses and leave the poor (who are usually lazy and often inherently stupid) to fend for themselves. While it is difficult to find prescriptions for public policy in the Bible, the tenets of mean-spirited neo-conservatism present a stark contrast to the words of Jesus: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has annointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed..." (Luke...
...Stark, a retired cabbie, has a smoking habit that cost taxpayers more than $20,000 last year, and this year the meter is still running. The 53-year-old Miami resident smoked three packs a day for almost four decades; now he has emphysema and needs bottled oxygen to breathe. Medicaid-i.e., taxpayers-foots the bill for his respiratory problems ($400 a month for oxygen, $18,000 for a nine-day hospital stay last year). Despite the tab he's already rung up, Stark still puffs his way through half a pack a day: "I just have this unbelievable...
...defunct 18th Amendment, outlawing the sale of alcohol, should serve as a stark reminder of what happens when the Constitution becomes a repository for our hopes rather than our most basic convictions. While we are at it, we might as well ratify Constitutional Amendments outlawing AIDS, hunger, and poverty...
...ordinary Cubans race to take advantage of the reforms, inequalities are swiftly giving rise to their inevitable byproducts: class resentment, social unrest and crime. Prostitution once again flourishes in Havana. The influx of tourists (including some Americans, who slip onto the island illegally from Nassau) sets up a stark contrast between the fantasy playground being built for foreigners and the gritty reality that ordinary Cubans must contend with. As the inequalities increase, many poor but educated Cubans view the rush to the dollar with disgust...