Word: aap
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...even as she was fêted by the literary establishment, Kumin maintained an activist—even rebellious—streak. In November 1998, she and Carolyn Kizer resigned as chancellors of the American Academy of Poets (AAP) to protest the absence of blacks and other minorities on the academy’s 12-member board...
...Kumin remains proud of her stand against the AAP. The academy subsequently expanded the number of chancellors to 17, of whom three are now black and seven are female. “It’s a whole new ballgame,” she says...
Sources: Los Angeles Times; Washington Post; New York Times; Washington Post; Agence France-Presse; AAP...
...Kapoor's Awaara, she was required to age 24 years in the role of a loving wife who is unjustly accused of infidelity. After that, she played mum to the top male stars of Bombay's Golden Age: Dilip Kumar in Ganga Jumna, Dev Anand in Guide, Dharmendra in Aap Ki Parchhaiyan. Women on pedestals are expected to behave like statuary: the heavenward glance, the beseeching gesture, a grandeur silent and stoic. Not Chitnis. Hers was a robust femininity; it humanized the saints she played. She retired in the '80s and moved to the U.S.?alas, without the happy ending...
...once again to be on an upswing. And now trampolines are a hit not just with kids but also with exercise-conscious baby boomers and teen snowboarders. "Sports right now are aerial--the higher the better," says Lani Loken-Dahle, a trampoline instructor at the University of Oregon. The AAP still frowns on backyard bouncing, but nearly 700,000 trampolines were sold last year. --By Rebecca Winters