Word: rethink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dean proposes a number of suggestions for those both within and outside the medical profession, aimed at forcing all groups to rethink their priorities as individuals in a responsible society. To counter the drastically low rate of organ donation, one of the most serious constraints on transplants, he suggests that the United States follow the lead of many European countries and make organ donation more like the donation of blood: an act expected of all who are capable of doing...
...objects at Ban Chiang: bronze tools and jewelry, such as anklets and bracelets, fashioned between 2500 and 1500 B.C., and iron implements and ornaments made around 1000 to 500 B.C. Says University of Pennsylvania Archaeologist Joyce White: "Finding these metal objects was completely unexpected. It has caused scientists to rethink traditional theories about the development of civilization in Southeast Asia...
...director, founded the company in 1969 as his commitment to the people of Harlem following the tragic assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Today, the multiracial company includes 48 dancers and sports a repertoire of more than 60 classical, modern and ethnic pieces. By forcing us to rethink and reconsider traditional stereotypes and associations, the company represents a deliberate expansion of classical ballet...
...child by Max) from the 1968 section and giving Max a new way out of his climactic misery. Says Jay Kanter, vice president of the Ladd Co.: "We thought Leone's original was a wonderful picture. But the response to the first preview caused us to rethink the situation. Besides, at 3 hr. 45 min., theaters would be limited to just one show a night." As it happens, Staenberg performed an adroit, sympathetic salvage job, but to little box-office effect. The shortened America opened the same day as Star Trek III: The Search for Spock...
...aroused the ire of some Italian Americans after the tour was announced; they objected to the implied Mafia motif. Yet this Rigoletto no more defames Italians than, say, Un Ballo in Maschera does Bostonians. Rather, it recasts the familiar work in a light that forces audiences to rethink it and savor it anew. Renaissance vendettas can seem remote, "operatic," unreal, but transplanted to Mulberry Street in the 1950s, they take on a grimy, visceral immediacy. In the major roles, John Rawnsley as Rigoletto displays a rich, focused baritone, and Valerie Masterson as Gilda has a clear, secure high soprano. Tenor...