Word: troy
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Simon, an author and former editor of the Troy (Ill.) Tribune, has represented a tough, grungy rural district for a decade. A prolabor liberal, he put together the late, great Democratic coalition: he captured Chicago's blacks, ethnics and liberal whites overwhelmingly, and a majority of the rural quasi-Southerners downstate. He may have been helped by an uptick in the state unemployment rate (to 9.4%) announced last week...
...PERFECT COUNTERPOINT to "Creole Giselle" was the first work of the night, "Troy Dance," a short, fantastic work choreographed by Robert North with music by Bob Downes. The dozen-man ensemble rolled, leaped, and cart wheeled across a bare stage in various pairs and groups. This comical celebration of machodom neatly balanced the somber 'Creole Giselle,' reminding us of the perversely ambiguous history of the American south. The Brazilian music--rhythmic drums, cymbals and xylophones and the set's rapidly changing colors provided a lively background for the jazzy, athletic dance...
DIVIDED INTO chapters on individual "writers," including excerpts from their work, the book parodies everyone from Helen of Troy to Helen Gurley Brown to Anais Nin (who becomes "Anais Zit"), spearing Truman Capote and Norman Mailer '43 along the way. But the barbs aren't just aimed at writers; writers are the convenient vehicle to get to the heart of society itself--and in particular men and women and sex. After all, two of the authors say, "the main motivating force in everyone's life is sex." But about politics--don't satirists have to have politics? Consider, however, these...
These findings result from week long visits to the all girls Emma Willard school in Troy, N.Y. where Gilligan conducts extensive interviews with the students three times a year...
Taxes from the second largest Sears store go to Troy, Mich. TIME erred...