Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeffersons, their lives may come as a revelation. Roots 11 shows blacks sharing the same heart breaks, career ambitions and class conflicts as whites. A subplot about a Rus sian Jewish merchant (George Voskovec) in the South also sets up parallels between blacks and foreign immigrants as both groups deal with the problem of assimilation into American culture. But Roots 11 does not try to turn blacks into dark-skinned whites. When Haley's forebears enter middle-class professions, and even the Republican Party, they still cling to the litany of African words passed down by Kunta Kinte...
...gazetteer. Osaka, Paris, Tehran, Tel Aviv. They seem as familiar to him as stations on a commuter run in Connecticut. Then, listening to him self, he stops and smiles apologetically. "And to think that when I was growing up in Henning, Tennessee, it used to be a big deal to get a lift on a feed truck to Memphis!" The phenomenal success of Roots has not so much changed Haley's life as it has obliterated it, giving him a new and often uncomfortable persona as if he were seeing himself in a strange, distorting mirror...
...Ides of August is a kind of upstairs-downstairs drama. On the upper level, in full view, are the national leaders fitfully attempting to deal with the crisis of 1961. Obscured from public sight are the embattled East Berliners making a last attempt to escape before the Wall is completed. The contrast is sometimes too theatrical and may do less than justice to statesmen who must always improvise, but Cate sharply points up the courage demonstrated belowstairs that was so urgently needed...
...riding breeches and a scarf of white parachute silk for combat wear, was a World War II general described as a fighter who "out-Pattoned Patton." Author Truscott's father is also a career military man, a West Pointer. Truscott IV, 31, has found a complicated way to deal with the family tradition. He graduated from the Point with a resolutely undistinguished record in 1969, then resigned his commission 13 months later in a row with his superiors. Truscott became a journalist-largely for the Village Voice-and bent politically somewhat to the left...
...talk with the man." Repeatedly, the vote came out the same: 11 to 1 to convict Flood on at least four counts of bribery and three counts of perjury. Finally, Cash and the jury foreman, according to Vegos, disappeared into a bathroom to try to work out a deal: Would Cash go along with a guilty verdict on one count if the other jurors agreed to acquit on all the rest? The jurors rejected that idea...