Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kaku says that if it hadn't been for the war, he probably would have ended up like many of his University colleagues, working at the Livermore weapons laboratory at Los Alamos designing third generation hydrogen warheads...
...women's movement hadn't come along yet so we didn't know what to call it, but we knew back then at Harvard in 1968, we knew there was something deeply wrong with the whole system. If we hadn't learned it at the no-women-allowed Lamont Library, the virtually all-male Crimson, the men-only Rhodes scholarships or in our classes where men outnumbered women by four to one, we women certainly learned it when we started looking for work...
...style has been likened to Billie Holiday's. It is a comparison that Lincoln, who has recorded two albums of Holiday's songs, encourages -- up to a point. Says she: "I can't imagine what it would have been for me if she hadn't been there." Like Holiday's, Lincoln's voice can be harsh. But she invariably finds the emotional center of a lyric, singing every syllable clearly enough to satisfy the standards of a BBC announcer...
...comparison to David Lynch's skewed soap opera is impossible to avoid, so best to get it out of the way quickly. Wild Palms would not exist if Twin Peaks hadn't paved the way. But Wild Palms is a total original -- just as daring as and perhaps even more demanding than Lynch's series. Twin Peaks, for all its weirdness, was at bottom a simple murder mystery: Who killed Laura Palmer? Wild Palms is denser and more disorienting, a paranoid dream play that bombards us with freaky characters and mystifying plot twists, tying them together only hours later...
...wondered "was my presidency so inconsequential that it has been struck from all records of the University? Certainly a few of the 400 dues paying members that year must remember me. Or perhaps Professor Mansfield, the club's advisor? After all, hadn't I provided hundreds of members and nonmembers with opportunities to work on the presidential, state and local campaigns that year? And didn't I organize a tremendous party on election night? I am pretty sure that I also arranged a trip to Washington DC for spring break where we had breakfast with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger...