Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stick together in this very sorry moment of our history." The Prime Minister's reaction to the murder is likely to be forceful, to put it mildly, and in the War Measures Act he has an immensely powerful instrument for applying pressure. Under the act, a large segment of the Canadian Bill of Rights is suspended for up to six months. Police and troops are empowered to make searches, seizures and arrests without warrants, and to hold suspects up to seven days without making charges. The F.L.Q. is formally outlawed. Anyone who attends an F.L.Q. meeting or speaks favorably...
Western newsmen have summed up Jordan's civil war as a confrontation between "fed" and "Bed"-that is, between the Palestinian fedayeen and the Bedouins, who make up the largest segment (250,000) of the other Jordanians. To a certain extent this is true, for the Bedouins remain the backbone of Hussein's 56,000-man army. Yet increasing numbers of "Beds" are joining the "feds." Arabs estimate that up to 15% of the guerrillas are non-Palestinians. No fewer than 2,500 members of the Beni Sakhr, Jordan's most powerful Bedouin tribe, have joined Arafat...
...When one script, in the latest TV mode, made a cynical and token pass at the nation's racial troubles, the stars gagged and turned the circumstance into parody: the black athlete became a token Eskimo. Randall and Klugman also lose battles. They were embarrassed by the third segment in the series, which lost bits of subtle humor to give more time to a leering portrayal of Oscar hustling an airline stewardess. The actors condemn the use of canned laughter as "an atrocity" and fume at the network's excision of the characters' children from the story...
...BALD SOPRANO had a strangely stale effect, though the famed "Bobby Watson" segment and the opening interchange between Mr. and Mrs. Martin should, independently, justify even the most traditional revival of this play. What follows these two paradigms of verbal obfuscation is a dreary series of games which the Smiths play with their think-alike symbolic coordinates, the Martins. The caperings of Mary, the maid, seemed to contribute nothing to the action, but Victoria Fraser's quickness in that part relieved an artistic sore in the play which was repeatedly aggravated by Jim Lynch's performance as the visiting Fire...
Performing before an audience of 700 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris last week, Violin Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz completed the last segment of a taped, hour-long all-Heifetz TV show that will be aired in the U.S. in April. During a passage that the accompanying French National Orchestra played too loudly, Heifetz, 69, cautioned, "Softer, please, they want to hear me." An impressive standing ovation proved that he was absolutely right...