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...wanted that character to be the way music is in out lives," Rudolph said, responding to a question. "When you buy a record and play it, it is up to you what that performer is." Such thinking suggests a point of departure from the premises that underlay Joan Tewksberry's Nashville script, where most of the major characters appeared first as entertainment figures in one way or another but later came under some intense scrutiny anyway...
This image of the Social Democrats as architects of a spreading and insensitive bureaucracy is probably what led many young Swedes to become relatively conservative and thus vote, as they did last week, against the socialists. Fear of further concentration of power underlay another key campaign issue: the opposition to a labor union scheme for the gradual transfer of control to the unions of all private enterprises...
...these points all seemed to agree, and everyone, even the Spartacists, pledged support for the MPLA. But what underlay the discussion was the profound opposition over what effect the Soviet Union was having through its support of the liberation movement. A group of people steeped in leftist rhetoric continually skirmished over the issue of Soviet "social imperialism." Throughout, however, the Spartacus gadflies persisted with their line...
...battles flared up even as the committee struggled for ways to end the current skirmishing and solve the religious and class differences that underlay the shooting. Bulldozers had hardly cleared away old rubble from previous fighting when debris came crashing down into the streets from new explosions. Random incidents, typical of the insanity that stalks Lebanon today, added to the intensity of the fighting. Two mortar rounds, apparently fired on aim less trajectories from undisclosed positions, hit a street in one of Beirut's Moslem quarters where harried housewives had queued up to buy bread; 24 were killed...
...past dozen years, Chicago has turned to Attorney Barnabas Sears to pursue charges involving the city's police force. In New York City, Judge Samuel Seabury raked and ultimately broke the corrupt Roaring Twenties administration of Mayor Jimmy Walker; Thomas Dewey probed the "politico-criminal alliance" that underlay the city's racketeering...