Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday in Providence, the Harvard men's tennis team saw its winning streak over Brown brought to an abrupt...
...President implied that his personal relationship with the Attorney General took precedence over the integrity and effectiveness of the Justice Department. Other Republicans were more concerned. Some members of Reagan's White House staff have quietly supported the pressure on Meese to step aside. Instead of criticizing the abrupt departure of Weld and Burns, they praised it, in the words of one adviser, as an "act of principle...
...incident was the latest squall in an increasingly stormy relationship between London and Dublin. Like the weather over the Irish Sea, ties between the two countries can be subject to abrupt changes. The sun came out in 1985, when the Anglo-Irish accord was signed, in which Britain granted Ireland a voice in the affairs of Northern Ireland. Since then a series of controversial British decisions has drawn complaints from Ireland...
While some of the band's songs are more danceable than others, the abrupt changes in style within each song would definitely lead to interesting dance interpretation by any audience. Sleep That Burns is at its best when Dinda sings high against Magus' deep, haunting voice...
...British plays on view in London within the past year, one discussed for a New York City staging, the other already installed. The possible transfer, Simon Gray's Melon, cues playgoers in from the start that they are entering tragic terrain: its tale of a happy man's abrupt tumble into lunacy is recounted first person in the chill of retrospect, after an equally arbitrary, untrustworthy recovery. The other play, Alan Ayckbourn's more complex Woman in Mind, gives audiences no such easy signposts and thus achieves an even richer mixture of laughter and pain. It opened last week...