Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bryce Harlow, the very wise aide who served Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford, developed a theory that the mettle of a President and his Administration is never really taken until there is a failure, whether from within the Government or thrust on them from the outside. How these people shed their jealousies and fears, how clearly they see ahead, how they come together and embrace the national interest instead of their own ends is the true measure of a President and his aides...
...loud and clear, helped by some strong actors and a director who sticks cautiously to a few basic note--squalor, loneliness, weired twistings of communication, and a creeping, gradually dominating mistrust. Cutler lets the cast carry Shepard's heavy messages, but he doesn't add much dramatic shape or thrust. Too ofen, the dialogue sags unbearably under the weight of its pregnant pauses; at other times, mostly in Act One, the actors lose track of their speeches meaning and say everything with the same flat air of significance...
...first one I saw was standing outside Elsie's, his triangular nose thrust firmly in the air. The orange face returned my stare with a hollow, fiery gaze His mouth stayed half-open, and I had trouble telling where face ended and teeth began...
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, in this busing era, remains a loaded term. But community education coalitions could organize within one neighbourhood or a cross-section of a larger district. Friends groups could share their expertise and unite on certain national issues, coming together as regional or national coalitions. The thrust of the coalitions, however, would remain in the community...
...stage is thrust up from the floor and split into two unequal planes. Enter eleven dancers clad in black, red or white pajamas, their costumes slit wide to flash inner forearms and thighs. Slowly they start to spin, hop and shuffle in smooth synchronicity. Out of huge loudspeakers suspended from the ceiling comes the foghorn blast of a low note-like the opening of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra-played by a synthesizer; later the music rises in a blast of brass to a Brucknerian apotheosis...