Word: drews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day, Thursday, the " President, Rosalynn, Vice President Walter Mondale, Chief Aide Hamiloton Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell, Image Builder Gerald Rafshoon. Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat and Pollster Patrick Caddell gathered around a table in the President's Aspen Lodge and drew up lists of people to invite to the summit. The lists were broken into broad headings?one was "religious and ethical leaders," later inevitably nicknamed "the God squad"?and organized day by day. Aides began phoning invitations Friday morning, and the first group, a hastily assembled collection of eight Governors, arrived for dinner that night. Eventually...
...oilcloth-covered table shaded by grapevines behind the Joe and Mary Italian-American Restaurant in Brooklyn. Over pasta and red wine they were ostensibly celebrating the departure next day of the restaurant's owner, Giuseppe Turano, 48, on a vacation trip to Sicily. Suddenly a blue Mercury sedan drew up outside, and five ski-masked men rushed into the restaurant. Six feet from the table, they opened fire with shotguns and semi-automatic rifles. In a litter of rolls, half-eaten salad and .45-cal. shells sprawled the body of short, balding Carmine Galante, 69, shot in the left...
STRATFORD, Conn.--Just about every one of us is vitally affected by politics and the powers attendant upon it. This was true in ancient times and has remained so ever since. To explore the matter for his Elizabethan audiences, Shakespeare drew on Roman history for his Titus Andronicus. Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus...
...reading, a benefit for the recently-formed Support Group for Women's Safety, was the second in a series which began Friday night with an evening of black women's poetry at the Solomon Carter Fuller Center in the South End. The first reading, which also drew a standing-room-only crowd, featured the poetry of Lorde and local poets, Fahamisha Shariat Brown, Barbara Smith, Kate Rushin, and Dianna Christmas. Both evenings were supported by a number of community organizations concerned with making Boston safe for all women, including the Black Star Theatre, a Radcliffe-Harvard organization, which procured...
...life, Michelangelo drew indefatigably-from models, from cadavers, from memory. Yet, according to his friend Giorgio Vasari, "so that no one should ever know the extent to which he had struggled to achieve perfection," Michelangelo burned nearly all the drawings he still owned just before his death...