Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plenty of time to correct the failings of the first 100 days. I hope for our country's sake that the balance of your term makes all I have written look silly and premature. Perhaps the final summary of your administration will be found in a kinder, gentler history book...
...drives. Organizers line up the carloads to be given maps as they peel off out of the lot. Taut nerves make the leaders snappish as they scurry about, pausing in little clots of prayer, then bustling to their tasks. Their language is semimilitary, befitting such constant readers of the Book of Exodus. These are churchgoing, middle-class couples, uneasy in the shabby clothes they have put on for prison service later in the day. Not the demonstrators of civil rights or antiwar protests, these are a new breed: "Bible Christians" increasingly determined to restore their country...
...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 and that men have...
What was the Class Committee thinking when they selected this design? While the Class of 1988 shirt mimicked a "Dick and Jane" children's book and the 1987 shirt pictured a T map full of options, this year's seniors are supposed to have only one goal: money...
...with Nabisco in 1985. The last ties were cut in January, when heirs sold their stock to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the investment firm that bought RJR Nabisco for $25 billion. In his own small way, Patrick Reynolds has remained an annoyance to relatives and cigarette makers alike. If his book is successful, he says, he will donate a substantial portion of the profits to a lobbying group he is forming, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free America...