Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...media can do much in the age of AIDS," said Blumenfeld, co-author of a recent book about gay and lesbian life. "It can educate, stimulate discussion and it can also motivate people to get involved in AIDS work...
...panel also voted 10-2 that certain bulk sales of Wright's book, Reflections of a Public Man appeared to have been used to evade House ceilings on outside earned income...
...Impossible Dream, Sandra Burton's history-as-I-lived-it account of the assassination of Aquino's husband Benigno and its aftermath. As TIME's Hong Kong bureau chief from 1982 to 1986, Burton soaked up the Philippines' maudlin, heart-tugging, cutthroat, rumor-mad, pious, unethical spirit. Her book is not only the expected political thriller, full of intriguing Filipinos and meddling Americans, but a bizarre feudal drama set in a land where Sancho Panza, not Don Quixote, tilts at the monstrous windmills...
...Melodye Stewart's workshops on African contributions to civilization, go. After 14 years as a corporate secretary, this dynamic mother of one returned to school and developed the courses in which she teaches that not all great things came from European minds. And keep an eye out for books by Luke Pontifell. He does not write them but prints them, beautifully, by hand. Last year his Thornwillow Press published Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s J.F.K. Remembered, and in July he will bring out a book by Walter Cronkite on the first human landing on the moon...
...Mass. Says her husband Robert: "My credit cards have me as Sammataro Hut. When I try to sign a check, I run out of room." The family's insurance reimbursements are bogged down because records do not match. The couple have to maintain an extra listing in the phone book so their children's friends can find them under Hutchins. "Ten years ago, when I married, I felt very strongly that I should retain my name," says Debra, nee Sammataro. "But it's been a nuisance ever since...