Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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History evinces itself in the chronological arrangement: the ominous shadows behind the always-smiling caricatures of the Weimar period tell a good deal about what it was like to make prints in Germany during the last century. But the show's sweep creates problems. The gems it contains seem to lack a setting. Go look at this as though turning pages of the books from which most of these came,--and turn slowly...
...TEAM'S anecdotes cover a vast sweep of theater history, but, relatively retired from the scene, they don't want to talk about details. The viewpoint of their retrospective is not the incisive one of the Vanguard days; the ups and downs of working with movie personalities are shown as fairly level. Occasionally the tensions of Hollywood or Broadway emerged onstage. "We knew this was going to be a big one," said Green introducing a number, "because our dear friend Lena Horne was going to sing it. Now we'd like to sing the song as it was sung...
...Barry Gold water became the first Republican ever to sweep the Deep South?but in so doing, he helped paint the Southern G.O.P. into a far corner of conservative, segregationist reaction. Figuring that Republicans could not win much of the black vote as a bloc, Goldwater said: "We ought to go hunting where the ducks are"?in effect among white segregationists. This appeal, then and since, attracted many strongly conservative Democrats who were distressed by the increasingly moderate trend of their own party. In 1972 the G.O.P. reached its high-water mark. Nixon won all Southern states, and after...
...would soon violate Japanese airspace. When Belenko neither responded nor changed course, the Japanese scrambled two Phantoms to intercept the plane. But find him they could not. Belenko managed for 24 minutes to elude the Phantoms, probably by the simple expedient of flying again at low altitudes, below the sweep of the Air Self-Defense Forces' radar...
...shape of a buffalo's head. Stamping their feet, beating on their shields with their assegais and roaring the war cry usutu!, the warrior impis, arrayed like the right and left horns of the buffalo, would begin encircling the foe. Then the main unit-the head-would sweep forward so that the Zulus could use their assegais in close combat. During the twelve years before he was assassinated by his brother in 1828, Shaka built a Zulu empire that extended over hundreds of thousands of square miles and contained some 2 million inhabitants...