Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The film is filled with heavyhanded symbols of societal oppression and the universal urge to free oneself from convention, and the director's major problem is that she cannot quite decide whether Mona is a person or a symbol. The fact that we learn nearly nothing about her personal history...
In Iowa, militant moralism is making its way into the mainstream after a group of evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians seized control of the Polk County Republican convention. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad penciled in child- porn laws as one of his top legislative priorities for 1986. The legislature responded by passing...
To that end, Random House routinely demands permission from writers "to license mechanical rights." Simon & Schuster, among other print publishers, offers a defined structure to its authors, based on percentage of retail cassette sales: 5% on the first 10,000 units sold, 6% on the next 5,000, 6.5% thereafter...
After last week's big win, Liberal Democratic factions huddled in round- the-clock meetings to begin preparing for the annual party convention in the fall. Takeshita, along with Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, 62, and L.D.P. Executive Board Chairman Kiichi Miyazawa, 66 -- both prominent leaders of rival L.D.P. factions -- said...
The soul-searching among the Democrats in a New York City hotel last week was painful. They had gathered to discuss new approaches that the party should take toward one of America's most intractable social problems: the self- destructive cycle of unemployment, family disintegration and crime that has created...