Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black, and the city pops on in a fluorescent amber. It has a noise, this city, like a train or a wail. Tonight the carnival's noise prevails. The place is packed, the faces glowing orange and red in the wild spinning lights. At the giant revolving swing, a man solemnly takes tickets and the children mount the seats in pairs. Slowly the machine turns; slowly the nickelodeon starts up; and the chains that hold the swings grow taut until they parallel the ground. Suddenly the children are on their sides in the air, whirling above Belfast, impelled from...
Other children are playing soccer in uniforms on a huge dirt field. Some enjoy the playground. A naked baby stands before a swing, perplexed as to how to work it. A few busy themselves in the arts hut, painting or carving elaborate wooden musical instruments like the take and the kail. This is where Nep Phem likes to spend his time. When asked why art is important to him, he answers: "So that I may give something to someone, and allow someone to love me in return...
...straight ahead, as if posing for a formal family photograph, and sipping water from an orange plastic bucket passed from hand to hand. Three women group under a tent made of shirts to keep the sun off. They pay no attention to the gawkers in fresh-painted yachts who swing close by for a look. A woman nurses a baby so small it can be mistaken for her own forearm...
Councilors Alfred E. Vellucci and Leonard J. Russell are without question the two top contenders for the spot. Both are Independents, though Vellucci traditionally acts as the swing vote on the nine-member council, joining with the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) bloc to support the city's controversial rent control program...
...carries the first few scenes with reasonable crispness. Animation leaps from the opening number, a mock funeral for the tyrannical and bigoted Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee (Christopher Charron); the actors bounce cheerfully through the rather simplistic choreography, though the Old Library stage affords little room for 20 dancers to swing. Things seem fine through the establishment of a few basic plot premises...