Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Burden of Proof by Scott Turow. The blockbuster novel of the year is also one of the better, more intelligent reads. As he did in Presumed Innocent (1987), the author-lawyer hurls the human impulse to make trouble straight at the bloodless statutes designed to keep the peace. The impact is shattering, and the echoes remain long after the explosion is over...
Edward Scissorhands Spooky-cute Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder -- they look like the figures on a Transylvanian wedding cake -- make ideally mismatched lovers in Tim Burton's witty fable, in which a sweet-souled alien comes to suburbia, makes a few friends and scurries back home. E.T., meet...
...most Haitians remain optimistic. Says Jean-Claude Bajeux, a professor of theology and the head of Haiti's Ecumenical Human Rights Center: "He knows he alone can't change the country, and we can't ask him to make the changes with a magical wand." If the people remember that, then not even the army can stop Aristide's avalanche...
...accident, after reports that organizers of Arizona's Fiesta Bowl planned to contribute $100,000 to each of the two colleges fielding teams for the football game. The money would be designated for minority scholarships. Bowl officials hoped the offer would neutralize criticism of Arizona's refusal to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a state holiday, which had led to a call for colleges to boycott the game. But in a Dec. 4 letter, Michael Williams, Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, advised Fiesta organizers that such "race exclusive" scholarships were probably illegal...
California may have given Southern blacks a chance to make a comfortable living -- Hampton pulled in $50,000 a year with overtime making parts for Northrop Aircraft -- but its residents kept a businesslike distance. "Neighbors are very hard to find in California unless there's money behind it," he says. He would trade California's officious tolerance for Louisiana's sweet hypocrisy any day. "As long as you make me feel as though I've got as much right as you've got, fine. If you've got borderlines, let them be in your mind." For some blacks resettled...