Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richmond, April 10 -- Final Democratic Party caucuses gave Lieutenant Governor L. Douglas Wilder the delegates necessary to guarantee him the party's gubernatorial nomination. Grandson of slaves, Wilder would be the first black to be elected a Governor in U.S. history...
...inverts it into a witty, goofy, almost anthropological look at humankind as viewed by aliens from outer space. The patriarch of a suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work. Their mix of sharp insights, off- center observations and occasional wrong guesses eerily parallels the gradual mental deformation of the afflicted man, while...
CONFESSION. A CHRONICLE OF ALIENATION. A shocking and realistic documentary by director Georgi Gavrilov about a young high school dropout and drug addict, the grandson of a labor-camp officer, who searches for identity in an apathetic society...
...grandson of a Shi'ite mullah, Mughniyah trained with Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. A high school dropout, he excelled at terrorism; his boldness and quick grasp of explosives and weaponry impressed his commanders. But he fell out with Fatah leaders and in 1982, when Israeli troops invaded Lebanon and occupied his village, Teir Debbe, Mughniyah joined the newly formed and more radical Hizballah (Party of God). He took to wearing religious garb even as he recruited activists and professionals to the Shi'ite cause. He rose quickly to the top of the organization...
...illiterate grandfather, who encouraged his grandson to partake of the intellectual treasures of Harvard, also translated into English that "fools' names are always seen in public places." How can Lee expect to lead, without any moral authority, the Harvard Undergraduate Council. Louis J. Lanzerotti, Ph.D...