Word: ashworth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maya Lin was living on New York City's Lower East Side when she received a call from a man in Louisiana in late February 1988. Edward Ashworth, a member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, said he was sorry to disturb her at home but hoped she would seriously consider the reason for his call: he wanted to know if she would be open to the idea of creating a memorial to those who had given their lives in the struggle for civil rights. Since she had designed the much celebrated Viet...
...ways that he couldn't have fully imagined, Edward Ashworth found the $ right person to design the Civil Rights memorial...
...artists' friends comfort the afflicted. Manhattan Gallery Owner Holly Solomon knows dozens of AIDS victims. "One night this April," she recalls, "I went to Willi Smith's memorial. Then to Fourcade's funeral on Friday morning. That same week Tucker Ashworth ((p.r. chief for the city planning commission)) became very, very ill. At his home I held him in my arms and tried to console him. He died about a month later." The disease infects her business as well. "One day a woman called me to sell paintings her son had collected. He died when he was 31; she couldn...
...Dawn Ashworth, 15, left a friend's house last July to walk to her home in Enderby, a village in England's East Midlands. She never made it. Two days | later her body was found; she had been raped and strangled. Soon after, police arrested a 17-year-old youth in connection with that killing and an earlier, similar murder...
...sniffing dog, were checking out cars in one of the largest roadblocks in recent years. After 22 hours, the team had nailed 489 people on offenses ranging from expired licenses to possession of marijuana. St. Francis County expects to collect $20,000 in fines, and Sheriff Sam Ashworth pronounced the roadblock just about the best thing since sirens for scaring troublemakers out of his county...