Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...that sticking point remains. The commission voted narrowly to retain the controversial line, prompting criticism from Rabbi A. James Rudin of the American Jewish Committee, who is calling for a completely new play that "should reflect the reality of the 'cursed' Jewish people living in a reborn and independent state of Israel." Co-directors Christian Stuckl and Otto Huber, who worked closely with Jewish groups on the text, were also unhappy about the line's retention. "The effect of this sentence through the centuries was a very bad one," acknowledges Huber. Citing Christian theologians, Huber argues that the blood curse...
...Tribune used words like heartfelt and moving to describe We Keep Our Victims Ready, a verse piece about the consequences of male violence for women, gays and the homeless. The same piece was also singled out by Evans and Novak, who took exception to the fact that at one point Finley spreads chocolate across her naked body in what she describes as "a symbol of women being treated like dirt...
...investigation started before I got here. The networks are blaming the dropoff on flaws in the way Nielsen measures the audience. They point to a discrepancy between the national figures and separate local ratings that Nielsen took in February...
...bully of the Baltics, it might be difficult to lift trade restrictions against the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, Gorbachev's Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, met with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, in Geneva. It was an upbeat meeting except on what may be the single most neuralgic point for Soviet foreign policy: Genscher reiterated that a unified Germany will be a member of NATO...
Pavlov remembers his early schooling as little more than a continual drill in Marxism-Leninism. "I recall one of my friends being asked to analyze a political point," he says. "Our teacher said that two of his three observations were correct because they accorded with Comrade Stalin's views. But the third deviated from the official line. The only explanation for my friend's heresy, the teacher said, was that the devil had taken over part of his brain. That's what school was like...