Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Century Association, which is housed in a three story townhouse on New York's West 43rd St., is a watering hole for 1900 of the city's prominent artists and authors. Last summer the exclusive club signed an agreement which promised that it would abide by a state anti-discrimination law--only if it was upheld by New York's highest court...
...issue at hand was the succession to the country's aging leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who is now 86 and reportedly in perilous health. Indeed, there is ample evidence that fervently anti-U.S. radicals like Mousavi are sharply at odds with pragmatists like Parliamentary Speaker Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 52, over the leadership of the Iranian revolution in the post-Khomeini...
MOST BANKRUPTING Hoping for $1.7 billion in its anti-trust suit against the N.F.L., the U.S.F.L. won $3 instead. Expecting to make $20 million at his Moscow Goodwill Games, Ted Turner lost $26 million...
...Versailles to support Japanese claims to Shandong sparked a demonstration of some 5,000 students in Peking on May 4, 1919, and protests at more than a dozen universities across the country. Mao Tse-tung later labeled the "May 4 movement," as it came to be called, "an anti-imperialist and antifeudal bourgeois-democratic revolution in China." The protests ushered in a decade of radical opposition to foreign encroachment...
...studios said did not exist, was further strained by the expulsion of Actress Ingrid Bergman in 1949 for her adulterous love affair with Director Roberto Rossellini. Ancient history now; the author must explain that adultery once was shocking, and in other chapters, that Hollywood's casual, persistent racism and anti-Semitism in the '40s accurately reflected the larger society. His tone avoids the traps of moralism and amused superiority...