Word: converted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadlock held for 62 minutes of playing time as both teams failed to convert on dozens of opportunities...
Ozick is more successful when she builds on realism. Lucy of the title story is a convert to Judaism who marries Feingold, a Manhattan editor obsessed with the persecution of medieval Jews. Both Feingolds have published novels, spend their evenings toiling over new books, and joke that they are "secondary-level people." Only it is not a joke. "Jews and women!" thinks Lucy. "They were both beside the point. It was necessary to put aside pity; to look to the center; to abandon selflessness; to study power...
President Reagan will brief Education Department officials today on proposals he will present to Congress Monday to further cut financial aid and to convert the department into a "foundation for educational assistance." For most officials, the announcements will only confirm their worst fears...
...Angeles is probably the only city in the world in which theater has been considered a lesser art form, something actors practice while they are waiting for the big break into television or movies. But now, with the enthusiasm of a convert, the city has discovered a secret the Greeks knew 2,500 years ago: there is nothing so exciting as a live performance. The nonprofit Mark Taper Forum has become a showcase for serious, innovative drama; dozens of tiny, off-off-Broadway type theaters have sprung up in the shadow of the freeways; and big Broadway producers have found...
...Pong addicts. From the grandly atomic, our fantasies of Armageddon have apparently deteriorated, in a few short years, to the meanly fiscal. Rollover asks us to contemplate what would happen to our money-market accounts if the Arabs were to withdraw their oil wealth from the Western banking system, convert it into a mountain of gold bars and then sit smirking atop it, watching the rest of the world lapse into a deep depression...