Word: lopez
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...family turned down $10,000 and travel expenses to West Germany from a "media corporation of international reputation, definitely not a scandal sheet," in exchange for exclusive story rights. LIFE has offered to pay the airfare to the reunion for the five brothers and sisters of Hostage James Lopez of Globe, but with no strings attached. Keough has accepted a flight to Wiesbaden from Boston's NBC affiliate, WBZ-TV. The Boston Globe blasted that as "checkbook journalism." Keough fought back by temporarily refusing to talk to the Globe, cooperating instead with the rival Herald American...
...YEARS AGO Enrique Lopez gathered together the most galling anecdotes about Harvard students and their legendary conceit he could find. He saran-wrapped the stories in discussions about the privilege of the exceptional, and arranged the packages in neat rows labelled with the names of the famous. He offered the formless, appalling concoction as The Harvard Mystique, more like a warmed-over TV dinner than a book, and called it an investigation of the conditions of acceptance into, attendance, and graduation from the oldest of Ivy League institutions...
...complex network between reality and representation it brings to the stage, but it accurately portrays the mazes of self-discovery that students undergo on the walkways between classrooms. It is a portrait, rather than an analysis, and as such, it towers above the warmed-over synthetic fare of Lopez and others. By framing the Crimson quest for self-understanding, the show, in its introspection, rejects myths about Harvard cast upon it and stands, naked, under the tree of knowledge...
...pervasive myths usually associated with the American Dream: the rugged individualist. Not everybody in this book wants to be thought of as a cowboy poking along into the sunset. They tend to value--even rely on--community much more than Americans are supposed to. Take, for example, Sam Lopez, a former gang member, who reformed and eventually became director of a program for ex-offenders. Like many others, he cannot achieve personal satisfaction until he has helped others; he doesn't come off at all preachy, only determined to see that the American Dream is spread as widely as possible...
...intense," she says--with the ultimate objective of making the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. As long as she thinks she is improving, Greis will stick with the grueling, often disheartening amateur mini-tours and the Grapefruit circuit, paying her dues until she is ready to take on Nancy Lopez and company...