Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Like Frankenstein's creation and Quasimodo, or any monster worth his salt, Merrick is doomed. But there are no rampaging townspeople screaming for the creature's blood, no corny "'Twas beauty killed the beast" tag line. Elephant Man ends in sadness, but also on a peculiar, vaguely cathartic note. Lynch has made the ultimate monster movie, dark, bizarre, and oddly affecting...
International observers note a dramatic and thorough build-up in South African military strength and anticipate the country's entrance into the nuclear arena, events which de Villiers ascribes to South Africa's current liberalization. "A society in the midst of change is at its most vulnerable," she notes. "The intellectual elite are expressing themselves daily in favor of profound political and economic change," she says, adding, "But of course, this has elicited a reaction from the conservative wing." In spite of questionable popular approval, the Nationalist government has legalized full African participation in trade unions. However, last August, Johannesburg...
...fourth chapter in the Crimson football team's 1980 story concluded, as did the first three, on an upbeat note. With first-string quarterback Brian Buckley sidelined with a knee injury, junior Mike Buchanan directed the Crimson offense cautiously but solidly, completing nine of 13 passes without surrendering an interception and collecting 61 yds. on the ground...
...stage antics, and a jaded, hedonistic style. Timing and musical clarity fused to make their music danceable--simple riff followed simple riff and their lines of action were both easy to follow and easy to latch onto. Crisp, clear, and minimal, it was all a matter of a weird note at the right time...
...bristled, asking: "Would you begrudge me one day off out of seven?" After other reporters mockingly beat the questioner with their notebooks, shouting their demands for a day off as well, Anderson took the cue. When leaving the room, he whacked the reporter on the head with his own note pad -to the laughter of the press corps...