Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important, powerful activity after dozens of films like Joysticks and Footloose touting the mindless. But, ironically, Bastian does not read the book curled up at home in front of the fire; he cuts a math test and spends the night in the school's attic reading by candlelight. Sure, reading and imagination are important--but they're not complete and absolute excuses for ignoring everything else...
...political enemy on the board, Dan White. Moments later she heard the news that White had also shot and killed Mayor George Moscone in another part of the building. That automatically propelled her into the mayoralty. Feinstein led stunned San Franciscans through a cathartic week of memorials and candlelight vigils, projecting just the right mixture of grief and hope. "This lovely jewel of a city seems a dark and saddened place," she said at a memorial service. "We need to be together and bring out what is good in each of our hearts...
...once, the opposition refused to shrug off such election chicanery. As members of the government-dominated election commission inexplicably dawdled over counting votes, demonstrators conducted a candlelight march on Manila's city hall, waving placards that proclaimed, NINOY, YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN!, TALLY SHEET, NOT TALLY CHEAT! and ONE VOTE, ONE COUNT! In the capital's commercial center of Makati, a recount took away the victory of UNIDO Candidate Aurora ("Au-Au") Pijuan-Manotoc, 34, the former wife of Sportsman Tommy Manotoc, who is now married to the President's daughter Imee...
...Corporation; to engage in secret meetings; to vote for the first time on total divestiture in 1983; to be deadlocked; to be manipulated by Derek Bok; and to make recommendations concerning the Sullivan Principles--recommendations ignored by a crafty Corporation that always hopes to ride out harmless candlelight marches. Practically speaking, the ACSR is a cooptation of the anti-apartheid movement...
David J. Wright '86 read "Paradise Lost" by candlelight for his tutorial...