Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jungle of Cities gestates the propositions that later became Brecht's babies. Mammon is God. Men and women buy, sell and devour one another, and freedom and free will are mocking mirages. The bleak isolation of existence governs all: "If you stuff a ship with human bodies till it bursts, there will still be such loneliness in it that one and all will freeze...
...gala at the Metropolitan Opera House last week celebrated the opening of the A.B.T.'s New York season, but it stunned the faithful. Where was the Don Quixote fan dance, the castanets number, the latest Russian, the Japanese ballerina who can hold a pose on point till intermission? Their places were taken by regular members of the company, and fewer than half the top box office names even performed. There were just four dances on the program and no encores. Until Twyla Tharp's roof-raising Push Comes to Shove, the audience seemed in shock. They were learning...
...cadence of the Black and White was a beat and a half lower than Yale, yet we didn't yield seats till past the 1000-meter point," Ziegler added...
Karmal seems to realize that his regime cannot win support by military means. Recently, for instance, orders have gone out to government functionaries to try to encourage hostile villagers to remain in their homes and till their crops. But Karmal's credibility as a leader has been irreparably damaged by the fact that he rode to power on the strength of Soviet guns. Aside from a few men at the top, in fact, the only issue that seems to unite the Afghan people is their determination to send the Soviets home. The Soviets surely realize the depth of popular...
...boys from Fleet Street responded in kind. They found the phone number of the $150,000 South Kensington flat her mother and father had bought for her and which she was sharing with three other young women. Reporters staked the place out and would call up till midnight and as early as six in the morning, badgering Diana for details of the romance. All this moved Mrs. Shand Kydd to write a letter of protest to the Times, and moved her daughter, finally, to tears. After a hectic pursuit from South Kensington to Mayfair, Diana sat and wept...