Word: unite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...autobiography by creating a fragmented film that the audience can only piece together from the newspaper clips of a few years back. The first scene jumps from Dancer picking up his pipe and freebase right to Dancer looking like a mongrel in the hospital's intensive care unit. Unless we knew exactly what happened to Pryor, we'd have no way of knowing what has happened to Dancer. Freebasing was reputed to be a dangerously potent high prior to Pryor, but it was not a pyromaniac's delight until Pryor went running through Hollywood Hills in full flame...
...analog room serves as a home for the infamous Serge Synthesizer. Created by Tcherepnin's brother, Serge, this complex unit--consisting of about a dozen small boxes interconnected by a web of wires--is the nerve center of a facility including mixers and tape decks. Though students with no experience can play digital synthesizers most easily, Tcherepnin says he stresses the importance of using the analog electronics to understand the fundamentals of creating sounds. "Disorientation is very important," says Tcherepnin. "You must learn to ride a horse instead of letting it ride you." Although Harvard's equipment...
...never know precisely what Waldheim knew and did in Yugoslavia when he served in the command center of a notoriously brutal Nazi general, but we do know that Waldheim has, for more than 40 years, lied about his role and we do know that the unit he helped command killed thousands of partisans and unarmed hostages in Yugoslavia and helped deport thousands more Greek Jews to the death camps...
...World Jewish Congress had accused Waldheim of hiding his membership in Nazi youth groups before World War II and of concealing his wartime service in a German unit that committed atrocities in the Balkans...
Waldheim has admitted serving in the unit, but has continually denied that he was a Nazi or took part in massacres of partisans or civilians. He has also denied knowing about deportations of Jews at the time...