Word: uncommonly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illegal narcotics traffic across the border. Mexico obliged with a vengeance, throwing into jail hundreds of American violators; most of them were "mules," who had been smuggling large amounts of cocaine from South America or marijuana from Mexico. A 13-year sentence-with no chance of parole-was not uncommon for a first offender. "Operation Intercept," as the border crackdown was dubbed, quickly turned into a publicity disaster for Mexico. U.S. prisoners staged hunger strikes to protest medieval conditions in Mexican jails. Relatives of the 577 Americans in Mexican prisons organized "Boycott Mexico" campaigns...
...UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS...
...Uncommon Women and Others, produced by Manhattan's Phoenix Theater, begins as a mini-reunion in a restaurant. Five Mount Holyoke College graduates (the "uncommon" ones) have got together six years later for one of those treacherous show-and-tell sessions. In flashback, the women return to their senior year. The college feels tremors of future culture shock, the expanding, unnerving world of women's goals and options...
...eccentrics who seem cast from what the author has elsewhere referred to as the "freak-death pages" of the daily papers. They are a small army that threatens to trip on its tangled plot lines. Yet Dunne manages to get them through with wit, vitality, affection and that uncommon commodity, good writing. -R.Z.S...
...merely one of the uncommon virtues of Swedish Playwright Per Olov Enquist's admirable and unfailingly perceptive play that he makes this point abundantly clear. Another virtue is that he shows all that was puny, punitive, fearful and self-absorbed in Strindberg's nature and at the same time draws an utterly convincing portrait of genius on fire...