Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...another attempt to soften the face of apartheid, he had set up the tricameral Parliament in 1984. It established a strictly limited form of power sharing that for the first time included coloreds, or people of mixed race, and Indians, but not blacks. Whatever the failures of that system, Pik Botha insists, it at least helped condition the minds of whites "to see a man of color acting like a gentleman just like everybody else." By the time De Klerk ordered the removal of the remaining WHITES ONLY signs on South Africa's beaches just before the Christmas holidays, whites...
...makes an interesting case for the play as a portrait of a whole society gone rotten rather than as a personal tragedy. His own portrayal of Edgar, the fugitive son of a mistrustful lord, comes as close as an actor can to making sense of the play's parallel set of antic mad scenes and willful disguises...
...submit his name for Senate confirmation. Lehtinen blames a Judiciary Committee logjam. The Miami Herald made matters worse by revealing details of Lehtinen's personal life. The paper reported on a deposition from his former wife, who swore that before their 1982 separation he hurled a television set across a room, bashed through doors and shoved her around. The Herald also said Lehtinen sprained the arm of his girlfriend, former legislative aide Dolores Zell, by pushing her to the floor. Lehtinen denies both stories...
...Fine Arts. All eventually coalesced as the movement's "first generation," pursuing the paths opened up by Park's early experiments. By 1954 Park had moved beyond his initial, hard-edged, painstaking compositions to a manner represented in the show by Nudes by a River, loosely sketched bodies set down on brushy backgrounds filled in with broad, drippy strokes...
...most interesting developments has been the appearance of what is called CRIs, community research initiatives, which are community-based treatment organizations. We have found ways to set up in each individual community, with doctors' help, tests that are free from Government interference and can therefore work much more smoothly...