Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intellectual decorum and poise that the well-born, French-reading illuminati of Madrid preferred the discourse of images to have. Goya was not good at optimistic allegory. His large painting of the adoption of the liberal constitution of 1812 -- the constitution as a maiden in white presented by Father Time while pretty Clio, the muse of history, takes notes -- is one of his few real pictorial failures...
...family heirloom, and like most heirlooms it is prized more than used, its value measured less in money than in memories. For this piano, the Charles family was torn asunder in slavery times: to acquire it, the white man who owned them traded away Doaker's grandmother and father, then a nine-year-old. On this piano, Doaker's grieving grandfather, the plantation carpenter, carved portrait sculptures in African style of the wife and son he had lost. To Doaker's hothead older brother, born under the second slavery of Jim Crow, the carvings on the piano made...
...apart again. Boy Willie Charles, son of the man who stole the piano, wants to sell it and use the proceeds to buy and farm the very land where his ancestors were slaves. Boy Willie's sister Berniece denounces as sacrilege the idea of selling away a legacy her father died to obtain...
President Bush, in a gesture of Valentine's Day spirit, announces that he will personally adopt all unborn, unaborted children, of all races, even the "little brown ones." He tells the nation, "I want to be like George Washington, the Father of My Country. Besides," he adds, "Barbara loves kids...
...never really forgive someone for something like that. You just try to put it behind you," her father, Robert Campbell, said Monday. "It's not important to me now. The thing I'd like to have back, I can't have...