Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time when important sectors of Nicaraguan society have become alienated by the leftward drift of the regime, the constant evocation of a threat from the U.S. and the counterrevolutionaries, known as contras, has become an important domestic political weapon. Moreover, the strategy seems to work. For all their highly vocal insecurities, Nicaragua's rulers are more securely entrenched at home than ever...
...Penn State and LaSalle, runners up to the aquamen at the Eastern Seaboard Championships a year ago. "This is a vehicle for us to show that we are willing to swim teams outside our league in the East or anywhere else," explained Bernal, who in the past has been vocal about the need to get meets that will test his troops before they reach the NCAA championships. "We are not hiding from anybody and hopefully nobody will hide from...
...into an intricate plot as he depicts the twentieth reunion of the Disciples of James Dean--a small club of James Dean fans--in the one-room Five & Dime in a barren town in Texas. Altman borrows the best qualities from the live theatre of precisely staged movements and vocal patterns and merges them with the best potentials of the cinema--fluid-flashbacks, close-up shots and angular filming. The setting of the tacky small-town corner Five & Dime, with its plastic-covered swivel stools around the counter, the displays of cheap trinkets, and the neon-like wall displays...
...women's issues from the White House, she did work quietly with her husband and the Senate Judiciary Committee to eliminate discriminatory references to women in federal laws. Now that she will be moving away from the White House proper, there are signs she may become more vocal. After her nomination was announced, she sat in her office, surrounded by flowers, champagne and reporters. "I would hope," she said, "that we have another woman in the Cabinet soon...
Inevitably, Levine comes in for his share of criticism; on its basest level, he is booed with surprising frequency by a vocal minority at the Met when he takes his post-performance bows. Levine's tempos can be brisk to the point of hastiness, and in his enthusiasm for the music he often lets the sound of the orchestra overwhelm the singers, swamping them amid Wagnerian brass fortissimos or with the urgent sweep of passionate Verdian strings. Even the Met orchestra musicians, who are generally enthusiastic about their conductor, complain. Sometimes after a performance they leave informal, anonymous critiques...