Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise, then, is that two weekly shows about Viet Nam have established themselves on the prime-time schedule. To be sure, both of them -- CBS's Tour of Duty and ABC's China Beach -- add plenty of TV fabric softener to the abrasive material. Each fills its sound track with '60s pop songs, as if Viet Nam were just another trip down nostalgia lane, like high school mixers and afternoons at the malt shop. Both have taken a predominantly male experience and leavened it with female characters and soap-opera story lines closer to Dallas than Saigon...
Fifteen years ago, a court-ordered school desegregation plan tore apart the social fabric of Boston. Blacks bused to schools in white neighborhoods were threatened and even beaten, while many white politicians staked their political careers on attempts to reverse the progress towards racial integration in the schools. Boston city politics were defined by race...
...there are many issues derivative of a successfully passed Proposition 1-2-3 that need to be resolved, I am, on balance, in favor of 1-2-3 because it symbolizes potential empowerment through home ownership equity, the inspiration of selfesteem and enrichment of the cultural and socio-economic fabric of our city," says Bell...
...done," said De Marinis with a sigh, "but from the public's point of view, covering up is the opposite of what's being done in the rest of Europe. The tendency is to leave it open to see." Already, a 5th century Christian church and a Roman fabric-dyeing plant are back under sand...
...strange ideas in physics, perhaps the strangest is the wormhole. It comes perilously close to science fiction: a wormhole is a hole in the fabric of space and time, a tunnel to a distant part of the universe. While no one has proved that wormholes exist, that does not for a moment keep the more adventurous of thinkers from trying to figure how they might behave. Last fall, for example, three researchers from Caltech floated the notion that in theory at least, wormholes could be time machines...