Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FEMINISM IS NOT dead yet. The March for Women's Lives proved at least that much. I, for one, was happy to see this return to arms in support of an original pillar of the feminist agenda. But the positive press this event received has obscured the more distasteful tinge of much contemporary feminist activism--the transformation of liberal feminism into feminist fascism...
...left is my enemy, and the right agrees with the measures, though not the aims, of the left. I am stuck in the middle of the road, and as a Texas politician once commented, "The only thing you find in the middle of the road is dead armadilloes...
...last analysis, one cannot imagine the peculiar sensibility of her work -- its steely finesse and suppleness, its imagery of blossoming, unfolding and embrace -- coming with such conviction, or perhaps at all, from a man. O'Keeffe was a woman of exquisite moral vigor. Now that she is dead, no effort will be spared to convert her into a mere culture heroine. In the gap between her death and this banal transfiguration, one can at least look at her paintings...
...regularly attend meetings of Cocaine Anonymous, a national self-help group patterned on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous. While David is back on the job, many of the people he used to get high with were not so fortunate. Says he: "A lot of my old friends are dead...
...Bank. At the front of the funeral procession, among mourners with drums and cymbals, fluttered the black, white, green and red flag of the Palestinians. Groups of youths, their faces hidden by kaffiyehs, flashed the V sign. Here and there among the hundreds of black-bordered portraits of the dead man were pictures of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The deceased: Zafer al Masri, 44, the slain mayor of Nablus, who was buried early last week in a highly charged atmosphere of grief and anger...