Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contributing writer to The New York Times, Kaminer cited the fact that in the 1995-96 school year, Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings was the "most challenged book in the United States"--purportedly due to pornographic content...
...laughing and dancing students are crowded in Wreston Quad, standing in tight clusters on the lawn outside the frat houses. The dance remix, "My Heart Will Go On," is blasting from a third-story frat window, and students are chugging beers and ignoring the nearby police, who seem content to munch on pizza and watch the party...
...Hunter, a professor at City University of New York (CUNY) Law School, explained how the Supreme Court case emerged from the denial of NEA grants to four performance artists, including Finley, in 1990 due to the content of their work...
...Blues is the sound of a not-untalented artist struggling to find his voice and ultimately ending up with too much style and too little content. STP fans will undoubtedly argue whether Weiland was better off with his former bandmates or not, and at this point, it's tough choice--measured, vanilla alt-rock hits vs. weird, inspired unpredictability. But for Weiland, the real question is whether 12 Bar Blues will go down in rock history as the audacious start of a memorable and exciting solo career, or just a depraved one-off from a rock singer has-been...
...wearers put their hats through unspeakable torture (at least for a hat) before they are content to put them on their heads. Pasquariello explains, "This hat was too small for my head, so I ripped out the netting stuff inside and took out the stitching with a stitch remover. Then I used sandpaper to remove any leftover stitching and make holes. "When questioned about his abuse of a new purchase, he responds, "This is what people do in my hometown...