Word: careers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taught Thomas L. Friedman two important lessons. "First, when it comes to discussing the Middle East, people go temporarily insane, so if you are planning to talk to an audience of more than two, you'd better have mastered the subject. Second, a Jew who wants to make a career working in or studying about the Middle East will always be a lonely man: he will never be fully accepted or trusted by the Arabs, and he will never be fully accepted or trusted by the Jews...
...said one, "whether he wants to be an artist or a flesh-and- blood jukebox." Though Cliburn went on performing as many as 100 concerts a year for the next two decades (which did include some Mozart, Chopin, Prokofiev), the authoritative New Grove Dictionary has summed up his fading career by saying that "he could not cope with the loss of freshness; his . . . playing took on affectations . . . He stopped performing...
...oeuvre includes pictures of nude children in erotic poses, a man urinating into another's mouth, and other violent and homosexually explicit poses. When some of the work was exhibited at New York's Whitney Museum last summer, there were averted eyes, even among those who make a career out of being avant-garde and supersophisticated...
...Cambodia. Solarz shared that view. Together they lobbied to deflect a Senate proposal to bar such aid. Quayle's initiative surprised Solarz on two counts. "Quayle seemed to be one of the few in the Administration who really seized the issue," he says. And in Solarz's 15-year career, it was only the second time a Vice President approached him on a serious matter; on the first occasion, it was Walter Mondale...
...started to enjoy modest success as a West Coast comedian. But in the late '50s he began to drink excessively, and there were several instances of physical abuse. "He could have accidentally killed me and not have known about it until the next morning," Jody recalls. When Carson's career pointed him to New York City, the couple tried to reconcile. But Jody saw ominous signs: "When we were unpacking, I found some magazines on the top shelf in his den of men beating up women, chained up and things...