Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disappointed," said Vigna of Kaufman, "but she had a tough match-the girl she played played really well...
...Sunday sermons punctuated by Baptist baptisms with the same uneasiness she feels about the historic March on Washington, in which her parents participated. To the young Sarah, the civil rights movement seems "dull, a necessary burden on my conscience, like good grades or hungry people in India." For a girl whose most dramatic bouts with racism are social snubs at a prep school, the battles of the '60's seem far away. Sarah is brought up among other prosperous Blacks and whites, and she naturally assumes many of their values. When her older brother brings home a Jewish classmate...
Sarah may be the victim of white society's warped values, but Lee is consciously gnawing away at the mythical New Negro. At the height of the civil rights movement, Sarah is in a lush girl's prep school. Her best friend, a white girl, asks her: "Don't you think it's rather romantic to be a Negro?...My father says Negroes are the tragic figures of America. Isn't it exciting to be a tragic figure? It's a kind of destiny!" In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, 30 years earlier, a white philanthropist said almost the same...
Some of those fears are justified. In Tucson last year, a drifter kidnaped an eight-year-old girl. She is still missing. After Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal was left open around the clock to accommodate the homeless on cold winter nights, commuters complained of being hassled and one man was found dead of head injuries. The terminal is now closed from 1:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. And in The Bronx three weeks ago, three men living at a shelter for the homeless were charged with kidnaping a doctor and torturing him for an hour before leaving...
...elected in 1975, and he would probably have won again in 1979, had he not been barred by state law from seeking a third consecutive term. Four years later, Edwards bragged that he could not lose to Treen unless he was "caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." A riveting stump speaker who sprinkles his oratory with Cajun French, Edwards reputedly can film a 28-second campaign commercial in a single take without a script, a rehearsal or a stopwatch. He has run 15 times for public office, including four terms in Congress, and has never...