Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summit with Deng Xiaoping. Yet there was no indication that Bush spelled out American rethinking of where the relationship goes from here. Nor was he prepared to touch on any ticklish trade and security issues in a six-hour visit to South Korea on Monday before winging home...
Like many young black teenagers in the 1950s, Harry Edwards saw sports as an escape from poverty. His father was a $65-a-week laborer who served time in the Illinois state penitentiary. His mother left home when he was eight. At San Jose State young Edwards starred in basketball. But the trappings of racism he found in fraternities, student housing, the faculty and staff radicalized him. By 1967 he was a Black Panther urging fellow black athletes to boycott white-sponsored events, including the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. At Cornell, where he earned a doctorate, Edwards was a mediator...
...decade ago, such a surge of rhythm could only have been achieved with complex, pricey and cumbersome equipment. Today any garage band can sound as big and as studio-slick as Fleetwood Mac, if only the young musicians stick with it. "People get these keyboards at home and use them for a while, then put them in a closet," Flores frets. "With 15 minutes of practice daily, you can learn to play any instrument. You cannot get away from education." Parents who want the family prodigy to put in more than 15 minutes on the upright are concerned that serious...
During the runoff campaign against the second-place finisher, Republican home builder John Treen, Atwater sent messages from President Bush and Ronald Reagan urging Duke's defeat. This effort not only failed but apparently backfired. "We resent outsiders coming in trying to influence us," explained Guy Hinton, a third-generation resident of Metairie. Duke, a highly charged campaigner, defeated the stolid Treen by a mere 227 votes...
...Nazi in his college years, Duke entered presidential primaries in a few states last year as a Democrat but won no delegates. He ran as presidential candidate of the Populist Party and got only 0.05% of the vote. Although he claims to have left the Klan in 1979, his home address serves as the local Klan office. He now heads the National Association for the Advancement of White People from the same location. While he professes to believe in "civil rights for all people," his new organization publishes an anti-Semitic newspaper (30,000 subscribers) that advocates restricting Jews...