Word: columbus
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...killing or assaulting male companions. His initiative was born of long-held convictions. As a legislator in the early '70s, he and his wife helped open a women's center in Cleveland and held hearings on domestic violence. When he became lieutenant governor in 1974 and moved to Columbus, he and his wife rented out their home in Cleveland as emergency shelter for battered women. He and the parole board reviewed 107 cases, looking at evidence of past abuse, criminal record, adjustment to prison life and participation in postrelease programs before granting the clemencies. "The system of justice...
...revolves around two antagonists: John D. Rockefeller, who built Standard Oil into one of the most powerful monopolies in the world, and Ida Tarbell, the muckraking journalist who exposed the unscrupulous tactics by which he did so. Later the series highlights less celebrated but equally colorful characters: people like Columbus ("Dad") Joiner, the Texas wildcatter who sought money by scouring newspaper obituaries and writing mash notes to wealthy widows, and Calouste Gulbenkian, the powerful Middle Eastern oil broker who was reportedly so suspicious that he had two sets of doctors, one to check up on the other...
...society doesn't make a big deal out of major anniversaries. This year much attention, politically correct and politically incorrect alike, has been given to the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. A little over a year ago, a dramatic ceremony commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. For God's sake, it wasn't too long ago that there was a gala ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spam...
...provided a milestone in TV history as well. The astonishing popularity of Ken Burns' 12-hour mini-series, which aired on PBS in September 1990, profoundly shook the TV world. On PBS, attempts to duplicate The Civil War's success have ranged from big-event mini-series like Columbus and the Age of Discovery to countless American Experience documentaries. The commercial networks too have jealously eyed the program's hefty ratings. It was only a matter of time before one of them took a chance on a similar effort. Which is the reason for Lincoln...
...fault autobiography, Push Comes to Shove (Bantam; $24.50). That's enough for most busy artists, but energy is Tharp's signature both in choreography and in life. She has now renewed her partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov for a 24-city national tour that started two weeks ago in Columbus, Ohio, and extends until...