Word: without
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers said they had worked with asbestos without using proper safety equipment and without being aware of the health hazards of the fiber--both OSHA violations...
Marley and his fellow Rastafarians use the word "Babylon" to describe the modern, U.S.-influenced Jamaican society. The songs on this album emphasize a historical perspective of Marley's battle against Babylon. The album cover features a quote attributed to Marcus Garvey, the late Jamaican black leader: "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots." The inner-sleeve has a centuries-old diagram illustrating how to best pack black Africans into a slave ship. Marley's songs elaborate on these themes of black exploitation...
Part of the trouble is in the writing and part in the playing. For a boy-meets-girl play to exercise its potential magic, there must be beguiling charm and a contagious affection. Farrow and Perkins project neither. Farrow's Phoebe is naive without the endearing thread of home spun innocence. Her vocal habit of putting equal stress on each syllable, word and sentence leads to aural torpor. Perkins' Jason is waspish and petulant with out a trace of roguish lovability...
...only for the peripheral characters. Jason's wife (Holly Palance) seems to defrost a room when she enters it- in this case, Douglas W. Schmidt's handsomely designed town-house study. Phoebe's husband (Greg Mullavey) is decent, amusing and sweet. But who admires a frame without a picture...
Columnists' condescension toward Carter is widespread in Washington. Witness Clayton Fritchey: "President Carter says he doesn't 'panic in a crisis.' But that's not the problem. The problem is that he panics without a crisis." The sagacious George F. Will has reasoned that "the national interest" dictates that Carter should be eliminated from the 1980 presidential race, and as quickly as possible. If George Will had been old enough to pundit in 1948, would he have summoned the national interest against Harry Truman...