Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reminded that I was fortunate to grow up in a two-parent home and have access to a good education," notes Lamar, who joined TIME 3 1/2 years ago after graduating from Harvard with a major in history and literature. Lamar credits one of his professors, Child Psychiatrist and Author Robert Coles, with awakening his interest in social issues. Then he adds, "I don't know a black person who is not concerned about the widening gap between middle-class blacks and those entrenched in the ghettos...
...mountainside overlooking Medellin, Colombia, some of South America's poorest families have been uprooted from the garbage dumps where they once foraged and deposited in 4,000 neat, red-tiled homes. At the entrance to the housing development, a large billboard proclaims the author of this generosity: PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA, a local billionaire who has been called one of the world's richest men. Escobar is also one of the world's richest fugitives. Last week a federal grand jury in Miami announced that Escobar and four other Medellin tycoons had been indicted because of the source of their immense...
Jerry Doolittle is an Expository Writing instructor and the author of four books, of which three are non-fiction. He was a speechwriter for both President Jimmy Carter and Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale and was a reporter for several daily newspapers...
...people bashing Stephen King. Any discussion of horror movies or books leads to the inevitable disparagement of King as pop slash-master, ghoulmonger, corpsedragger, goresplasher--as anything but a writer of merit. When Rob Reiner's Stand By Me was released, the deservedly glowing reviews mentioned the story's author in as offhand way as possible--as if it was good despite being written by King...
Undeniably, the author of this emotional and penetrating story is also the author of Creepshow. But King is aware of what he's done with his skill, of how he's occasionally bastardized it. As the 12-year-old narrator and his three friends approach the dead body, they begin to get scared: "We all began to nod. We knew about the night shift. I would have laughed then, though, if you had told me that one day not too many years from then I'd parlay all those childhood fears and night-sweats into about a million dollars...