Word: assays
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...Christian Holder and Rebecca Wright), in revealing skin-toned body suits that appear to have been glued on, carry out a lyrical sequence of serpentine, limb-entangling maneuvers that resemble moving illustrations for a graduate course in the Kamasutra. The third duo (Susan Magno and Tony Catanzaro) assay an updated version of that dreadful comic cliche of Pigalle nightclubs, an apache dance. The will-they, won't-they jousting ends, amusingly enough, when the girl resoundingly slaps her passionate but reluctant lover. He swats her one right back...
...guilt for the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University in May 1970 appeared to be impossible amid the polemic and passion of the time. An Ohio grand jury attempting to assay culpability in the confused events placed blame on Kent State students and administrators and exonerated the National Guardsmen who fired into the crowd of demonstrators. But in making its report, the jury exceeded its authority under state law, and its findings were judged illegal by a federal court; they were ordered expunged from the public record, although 25 indictments against students and faculty members were allowed...