Word: dated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Assigning a single starting date for an upsurge in creativity is an exercise in arbitrariness: the year 1987 will do as well as any. That was when August Wilson's Fences premiered on Broadway and Toni Morrison published her masterpiece, Beloved. Both would receive Pulitzer Prizes. In that same year, PBS aired Henry Hampton's Eyes on the Prize, the six-part documentary on the civil rights era, and Cornell scholar Martin Bernal published Black Athena, a highly controversial account of African sources of classical Greek civilization. Meanwhile, Spike Lee and Wynton Marsalis were establishing themselves as masters of film...
...soldiers stepped in, sometimes they did not. The true nature of American involvement remained hazy as the troops struggled to keep their balance between bitterly opposing camps in a dangerously uneasy climate, and the Administration tried to gauge what Congress would tolerate. As U.S. lawmakers began debating setting a date for withdrawal, the disorder offered a graphic reminder of how vulnerable Bill Clinton's policy is when mayhem erupts in Haiti...
...this brave new world, some people's suffering is more valid than others'. When several male students at Vassar were declared innocent of false charges of date rape, the college's Catherine Comins, the assistant dean of students, said she recognized their pain, "but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I did not violate her, could I have?'... These are good questions." Perhaps they are--but if I were falsely accused of murder, I doubt I would thank...
What was left to say, to do? I knew that I'd have to say goodbye to my girlfriend that night, essentially ending the most incredible relationship of my life to date...
Chiu said the committee will sell personalized steins with the house arms. He added, however, that the price of the steins, as well as the time and date of any sales, has not yet been determined...