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...operative principle of contemporary experience, in Cunningham's view, is chance juxtaposition. The application of chance to choreographic presentation has been one of the most controversial, and misunderstood, aspects of Cunningham's work; but for him, this represents no mere whim for the outrageous but an honest attempt to reintegrate art and life. In Cunningham's dance, as in modern life, the subjective ordering of individual experience replaces objective structure and continuity...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Dance on its Own Two Feet | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...Hubert's brother officers says cynically). Feraud remains crazed with hatred, and D'Hubert, though he cannot remember the original cause of the quarrel and is quite willing to forget the feud, continues to dance to honor's tune and his adversary's whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dawn Madness | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...restriction could lead to the creation of thousands of new farms and help destroy the two-class system of agriculture prevalent in many parts of the west. On farms of 14,000 acres hundreds of people who could own their own land serve instead as employees subject to the whim of a landowner who has the power to decide who works and for how much. The men, women and children who work in the fields and groves of the west often migrate from one corporate farm to another in search of work. They arrive when the tomatoes, oranges, or onions...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Soaking The Rich | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

...horse-trading on the final version of the bill raising Social Security taxes, were made before press and public, not in secret as they previously would have been. The seniority system has been weakened, eliminating many of the old, autocratic committee chairmen who could block important legislation on a whim. Chairmen, who are now elected by members of the majority in each chamber, have become more responsive to the rank and file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bold and Balky Congress | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...Africans...But if it is a method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing to pay. In any case, we suffer already, our children are often undernourished, and on a small scale (so far) we die at the whim of a policeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Telling White Lies | 12/13/1977 | See Source »

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