Word: treates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alvin Ailey Company is a treat--a contemporary company that delves into experimental, innovative themes and styles as no other company tries. They integrated and merged styles successfully with good, solid technique. Moreover, they gave us an exuberating trip to another world--and that's nice even if it's only for a couple of hours...
There seems to be a debate between those committed feminists who regard the attitudes espoused within the newsletter as something akin to a crime committed by a "bastion of beer swilling misogynists," and Club members, who treat the matter lightly and cannot understand the commotion over such an innocuous thing as a joke, a parody. On one level, of course the newsletter was a joke (crude though it was). Yet one cannot help but sense that the basis of such joking lies in something concrete, in the images of women that are continuously reinforced by advertising, books, television, movies...
...Girl Scout cookie is more than a popular treat. Over nearly a half-century it has become not just an annual door-to-door institution but also a symbol of the wholesome qualities of American childhood. A perfect target, in short, for twisted pranksters...
...first year, 1908, he cranked out 60 one-reelers in six months, following up with 151 more in 1909. He put in a seven-day week, sunrise to sunset. Along the way, Griffith practically invented the autocratic personality of film director. On the set he tended to treat actors as children, looking down his "fine, cantilevered nose," as Lionel Barrymore put it. He was not above firing a gun near Lillian and Dorothy Gish when those teen-agers were having their problems miming fear...
...virtually alone in the other camp, which favored giving military and economic aid to El Salvador while bringing the overwhelming economic strength and political influence of the U.S., together with the reality of its military power, to bear on Cuba in order to treat the problem at its source. In my view that the potential strategic gain from this combination of measures far outweighed the risks, and that the U.S. could contain any Soviet countermeasures, I was isolated...