Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America." And the spirit of America was, of necessity, one which he had felt in his own soul, deeply, at times abstractly if not outright vaguely, in exhortations and patriotic rumblings and sentimental dithyrambs. The difficulty with such an artistic creed is its high risk factor, its potential to bring about disillusionment...
...peer into the void is Salman Rushdie, author of two fantastical novels, Midnight's Children and Shame, that tell the recent history of India and Pakistan. As an Indian who grew up with his independent motherland in its infancy, and as a fabulist whose bravura acts of invention bring to mind the "magic realism" of Latin American fiction, Rushdie felt himself obscurely allied with the revolutionary government in Nicaragua. Last summer he accepted the invitation of the Sandinista leadership to inspect the seven-year-old revolution. For three weeks he attended rallies, journeyed to the Honduran border and hung...
When Tom Murphy, the speaker of the Georgia House, helped invent the Southern regional primary, his purpose was clear: "To bring the Democratic Party back to the mainstream of Southern thinking." With probably 15 Southern and border states selecting about 30% of the 1988 convention delegates during the week of March 8, the field seemed tailored for a moderate Democrat who could tell the difference between kudzu and ivy. But likely Southern entries retreated from the fray: Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers and former Virginia Governor Charles Robb declared themselves out, and Georgia Senator Sam Nunn has temporized...
...effort to win the competition, each of the principal bidders has formed an alliance with other big firms that can bring to the project expertise in large computer networks and other skills. AT&T has linked up with Boeing, which already operates a high-tech voice-and-data network for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. MCI is working with Martin Marietta, the aerospace giant, and Northern Telecom, Canada's largest telephone-equipment manufacturer. U.S. Sprint has enlisted Electronic Data Systems, the data-processing subsidiary of General Motors...
...VCRs bring X- rated films into the bedroom, women are developing a taste for porn and pushing for a softer, less sexist product...