Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather concerned by the "Happy Hacker" column of January 7. The advice he gives regarding ResEdit is very dangerous indeed...
...Square. As holiday strollers watched from behind police barricades, the students unfurled a dozen posters and banners calling for democracy and declaring support for the economic reforms introduced by Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. Seemingly unaware that their actions might instead serve to undermine Deng, they locked arms in a column eight abreast and began marching away from Tiananmen. Then, abruptly, the phalanx of students turned and surged back toward the square...
...they broke through police lines, hundreds of onlookers also burst into the square. Moving swiftly to stop the marchers, the besieged officers isolated several of those at the head of the column and roughly shoved the others back behind the police cordon. Several of the front marchers were manhandled and pinned to the ground. Within minutes police had dragged the arrested students to waiting vans and whisked them off to a nearby detention center...
...worship, mainly in the area around suburban Riverside, Ill., where he lives with his second wife Harriet, a voice coach. Ever quotable, he is constantly sought by reporters looking for quick bursts of wisdom on subjects ranging from Pat Robertson's presidential campaign to baby boomers. Marty writes a column for the Christian Century, the liberal Protestant weekly. He also decides what books the Century reviews and writes for numerous other journals. A self-confessed magazine junkie, he receives 250 periodicals and culls them for a fortnightly newsletter...
They gave the resulting column big play and let the city know I was coming back for more...