Word: writings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even had dreams of entering my old high school history class, and hearing my teacher rant and rave as if nothing had changed. ("Let's continue from last week, kiddos. WRITE THIS DOWN!!! France, an important country. WRITE THIS DOWN...
...people who write headlines," he demanded, "are they editors? And the ones who sell ads: are they editors...
...Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of her novel The Color Purple. The movie's huge commercial success -- and the controversy that arose over its portrait of black males -- ensured Walker's public renown as a woman with a cause, an author who, when she has a message, would rather write a book than call Western Union. Indeed, her poetry and fiction have always been, to some extent, polemical. Now that her potential audience has increased many times over, Walker, 45, has become more forthright about the burden of her prose: the horrors that whites have historically imposed on blacks...
...threatening to fracture both parties. Like civil rights and the Viet Nam War in the 1960s, abortion could be the great preoccupation of the 1990s. "It will be a battle for years and years and years," says Samuel Lee, executive director of Missouri Citizens for Life, which helped write the law at issue in the Webster case. "I don't think it's ever going to go away...
...large a check should the U.S. write as a reward for reforms in Eastern Europe? Should it write one at all? The Administration's largesse is limited by its own budget deficits. More important, Bush advisers are wary of applauding reforms that may turn out to be more mirage than reality. "Poland has serious structural economic problems," observes a senior Administration official. "The money it has previously borrowed from the West has been used very poorly." Unless the Poles revamp their economic system, says the official, "it's going to be money down the drain...