Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poet's visit to the school was part of a one-week U.S. trip that also includes a stopover in New York City...
Sharansky urged that Americans demonstrate their support for Soviet Jewry at a rally on December 6 in Washington during the Soviet leader's visit, the first in fourteen years...
...ground for this eight-day theater-and-therapy workshop has been prepared by a previous visit to Bridgewater in which 15 volunteer patients (as the center calls its inmates) were guided in the creation of a drama about incidents that had affected their adult lives. On this visit Bergman's task is even more complex: to dredge up memories from the ages of five to twelve and assemble them into a play. Since, as center Administrator Ian Tink notes, "90% of these patients were sexually abused as children," the hope is that by seeing themselves as victims they will realize...
...Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman as an oafish sportswriter, opts for a looser structure and more melancholy tone. Slap is a blustering loser who is constantly getting socked in the face, pushed around by his boss and dumped on by women; when his estranged son shows up for a visit, the reluctant dad has to poll co-workers for possible topics of conversation. Not exactly...
...most eagerly anticipated, and potentially incendiary, musical premiere of the year: an opera about Richard Nixon's landmark visit to the People's Republic of China that also includes Pat Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai among its cast of characters. Although it is sure to provoke strong emotions and conflicting opinions, Nixon in China, currently on display at the Houston Grand Opera, is the most important new opera since Philip Glass gave voice to Mohandas Gandhi in Satyagraha seven years...