Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carrasco's multimedia presentation included a brief slide show and an upbeat, bilingual version of the traditional civil rights song "We Shall Overcome," during which one enthused audience member got up and danced...
...turned 44 last month, shows few signs of age save a bulkier frame than his lean disco-daddy build in the '70s. He's choosing a wider range of roles now, from a simpleton security guard in Mad City to a hotshot yuppie lawyer in the upcoming drama A Civil Action. After a spring break, he may appear with wife Kelly Preston in a military thriller, The General's Daughter. And there's a good chance he'll play Frank Sinatra in a Dean Martin biopic to be directed by Martin Scorsese...
...largest U.S. bookstore chain, is that the photographs don't cross the line and that booksellers must stand up for the public's First Amendment right to buy high-gloss photos of naked teenagers. In a recent editorial, the New York Times agreed. And no doubt it is civil libertarians who, in the wake of publicity over the indictments, have been snapping up The Age of Innocence at $45 a pop and causing it to be virtually sold out in New York City, as I discovered after calling a dozen stores. It is doing well elsewhere too: the British book...
...story is told of the time Martin Luther King's widow Coretta Scott King was waiting to testify in a criminal case before Judge Norma Holloway Johnson. The judge sent a U.S. marshal to bring Mrs. King into the courtroom, but he returned alone, saying the civil rights matriarch needed another 10 minutes to prepare herself. Johnson, jabbing her finger in the air, responded quickly: "Martin, I'd give another 10 minutes. Her, I want here right...
Johnson, 65, attended Georgetown University law school at night while working as a public school teacher. After stints in the Justice Department's civil division and on the D.C. Superior Court, she was named to the federal bench by Jimmy Carter. Johnson has acquired a reputation for tilting strongly in favor of the government. In 1996 an appeals court reversed a decision of hers and, after citing her hostility to the defendant's lawyer, took the rare step of ordering that a different judge take over the case. She is also known for a testy courtroom manner. Last Friday...