Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...normal political life of a democracy, laws and institutions are what count. Even a leader as forceful and as long in office as Margaret Thatcher can suddenly leave, and while the world certainly notices, the event doesn't constitute a national, much less an international crisis...
Richard Celeste has worked to improve the lot of battered women for much of his public career -- even turning his former home into a shelter for them. Last week, in a dramatic final act before relinquishing the Ohio governorship, he granted clemency to 25 abused women convicted of killing or assaulting their mates. The move, the first such mass commutation in the nation, was hailed by women's rights groups as a major victory in the fight to treat violence-prone battered women as victims, not criminals. But many prosecutors charged that the action would encourage more abused women...
...American Music of Irving Berlin, Dwight Thomas at the Paramount Wurlitzer Organ (Newport Classic). Even on this unlikely instrument, Berlin's melodic invention -- from the infectious Puttin' on the Ritz to the tender Always -- is nonpareil. The sleeper of the year...
...Drugs, Rock & Roll Call Eric Bogosian a performance artist, monologist, short-story writer or even playwright. By whatever name, he is one of the shrewdest contemporary critics of the phony, the self-serving, the amoral and the damned. This off-Broadway collection of skits is a caustic vision of greed and substance abuse...
...Civil War (PBS). Even if it hadn't inspired a national craze, filmmaker Ken Burns' 11-plus-hour documentary series would rank as one of the medium's towering achievements -- a lucid, comprehensive and poignant narrative of the nation's great calamity...