Word: existing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Black scholars did exist in the country in 1969--they just didn't want to come to Harvard, says former student activist Robert L. Hall...
...cater to popular inquisitiveness? Talk-show host Montel Williams argues that "we reflect society -- we don't create society." Rose Mary Henri, executive producer of the Sally Jessy Raphael show, says: "I think we've helped the public awareness of domestic abuse and many of the abuse problems that exist, but I have no idea what kind of impact that has on someone who is serving on a jury...
...conspicuous shyness. What she thought about her crowded life no one knows because, with the exception of interviews granted to Theodore White and William Manchester in 1963 and 1964 respectively, she never spoke about her experiences after the assassination or revealed her reactions or opinions. Tapes of these interviews exist; White's will be released next year, but Manchester's are embargoed until...
...contrast, A Way in the World is introspective. By grafting scenes from his life to the severed dreams of old acquaintances and failed New World adventurers, Naipaul makes some odd reconnections to his past. The result is a literary platypus, a species that should not exist but does -- not beautiful but undeniably part of a major writer's distinctive evolution...
...space is not deep, as the title might suggest, but shallow, like a bas-relief. You keep expecting the image to fly apart into formal incoherence, but it never does: it has the kind of control you see in great drivers or skaters, a supple rigor that seems to exist only on the edge of its own dissolution. One is tempted to say that Excavation is the last great Cubist painting, 30 years after Cubism petered out. All of De Kooning's relation to Picasso...