Word: wounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dinner party conversation between black and white that zeroes in on The Black and White Question like a surface-to-air missile. The lily-white athletic club. The coal-black radio station. It is odd to think that this is where the civil rights movement of the 1960s has wound up, or down. But as any strict constructionist will adjure, the civil rights laws were enacted to allow for equal chances, not equal smiles; so it should hardly shock the system to learn that, on the bulk of the evidence, official and personal, the American social scene is less mixed...
...scheme ran smoothly from late 1978 until early this year. But as the size of the theft grew, Lewis found it tougher to avoid detection. Wells Fargo's computers are programmed to sound a warning on transactions above $1 million. To prevent that, Lewis wound up having to make weekly entries involving as many as 25 different tickets for amounts...
...show is funny, nonetheless. Director Grey Cattell Johnson has captured every drop of Moliere's satirical venom, and the spring of his theatrical tension is wound tightly. As the play opens, Marianne prepares to marry her beloved Valere. Plans are thrown out of kilter by Tartuffe, a hypocrite whom Marianne's father, Orgon, has decided that Marianne should wed Tartuffe instead of Valere. By this time, everyone else in the household has become sick from Tartuffe's hypocritical moralizing and pretended disapproval of even the innocent pleasures of dancing and receiving company. They plan to unmask Tartuffe's real nature...
Fuentes sits up even straighter and looks very stern. "I have not said that the revolution has been betrayed. This has become a cliche in the interpretation of my work. I blieve the social and economic processes inserted into history are not wound and pure and change. What does not change, however, is our ideology...
...fast-passing offense. Under Coach Ralph Miller, who has produced 507 victories (third highest among active coaches) at Wichita State, the University of Iowa and, since 1971, Oregon State, the Beavers have revived the too often neglected art of passing. On the floor, Oregon State works like a tightly wound clock. Each player is a whirring cog as he passes to a teammate, runs toward the basket along intricate routes, then repeats the process until, finally, the defense falters and a man breaks open for an easy shot...