Word: erasers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is nonsense that a public official must attend receptions and eat the food, both of which further enervate him. "I have eaten a lot of poached salmon, and I don't like it, particularly at 10 p.m.," Bennett said last week. "I never could get used in this town...
"Very explosive controversies persist about the American past, and we're still debating our interpretations of those eras," says Clinton, who has taught courses on and written about Southern and women's history.
A native Mississippian, Donald specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras and has been at Harvard since 1973. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for his work "Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War."
Rather later spent six years as a correspondent on 60 Minutes; his pugnacious style fitted well in the show that invented confrontation journalism. But Rather's sights were set higher. As retirement approached for Evening News veteran Anchorman Walter Cronkite, Rather and Roger Mudd emerged as the two chief contenders...
"Are you trying to make a play for my daughter?" asks Meredith of one William Shakespeare Jr. the Fifth (Theater Director Peter Sellars). Well, yes -- and the play he wants to make for her is King Lear. The film, though, could be called The Comedy of Eras. With his usual...