Word: directer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks after the Webster decision, pro-choice forces may be squandering their newfound energy in a debilitating squabble. One divisive issue is whether to stage another abortion-rights megamarch on Washington, like the one that drew at least 400,000 to the nation's capital last April, or to direct the energy and money required to mount such a colossal demonstration toward the more productive but less mediagenic grass-roots political organizing...
...have been patterned after this earlier teacher. But such theories lack textual support and have died out. Columbia University's Theodor Gaster thinks that the teacher was not even a specific person and that the title was used by a succession of leaders. Despite lack of evidence for a direct link between Jesus and the Dead Sea sect, the scrolls show that many of the concepts contained in the Gospels, as well as the fervent expectation of an imminent kingdom of God, were commonplace in Jewish culture just at the time when Christianity arose. With further texts to come, there...
...legal opposition calling itself the Interregional Group. At a freewheeling conference in Moscow's House of Cinema, the new faction elected a collective leadership and adopted a platform that called for rewriting the Soviet Constitution to make the system safe for pluralism and basic civil rights. In a direct challenge to Leninism, the central dogma of the Soviet Union, the organizers agreed that the power to rule should be taken from the Communist Party and handed to an elected government...
...intellectuals; it centers on an apparent close encounter with aliens from space. In multiple productions it showed scant commercial potential. In addition to the screenplay for M. Butterfly, which Hwang will write himself, he is working on three other films: a TV movie for PBS, which he will also direct, about a love affair between an FBI agent and the daughter of a man he hounded to death; "a Victorian rock musical about Oscar Wilde"; and a semiadventure set in Tibet. For the stage, he and Glass hope to adapt Andre Malraux's novel of revolutionary China in the 1920s...
STILL, I am not sure whether I think the man did the right thing. He walked out of the elevator embarrassed. We were embarrassed. Karen was offended. But he was polite, direct. He made his point and tried not to offend...