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...music of 1000 Airplanes, composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble, drives the production. It powers and parallels M's changes in mood, fluctuates and pulses as M's tenuous grip on reality weakens, strengthens, weakens again, and eventually disappears entirely. M rants and raves about the sound, "THE SOUND," which attacks her soul, tearing her away from the reality she hopes and fears to embrace and pulling her toward an alternate reality she simultaneously loves and abhors...
Many said the difficulty in finding a replacement was a by-product of Radcliffe's tenuous position as a college without faculty or students. And Wilson, now that she has accepted the job and arrived in Cambridge, must confront the thorny issue of Radcliffe's role in the University...
When Claude Pepper died last May at 88, the tenuous harmony among Hispanics, Anglos and blacks in his Miami congressional district seemed to depart with him. Last week Republican State Senator Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban American, won Pepper's old seat, defeating Democrat Gerald Richman 53% to 47%, after a race marked by ethnic calumny...
Since Myrdal, social scientists who study race relations have wrestled with the sometimes tenuous connection between expressed attitudes and personal behavior. As A Common Destiny puts it, "blacks and whites share a substantial consensus, in the abstract, on the broad goal of achieving an integrated and egalitarian society...
...Polish Pope John Paul II. After Solidarity was outlawed in 1982, the Polish government became desperate for Vatican ties in order to win support among its devoutly Catholic populace and enhance international esteem. John Paul, however, held back because the bishops in Poland feared that their tenuous status would be undermined if the government could deal directly with Rome...