Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slabs. Fans pluck blades of grass from the plot and leave a variety of mementos, including red roses, teddy bears, hound-dog dolls and religious medallions. Even casual visitors are affected. "The resting place is very impressive," says interior decorator Agustin deRojas, 60, a Cuban refugee who lives in Houston. "I admire Mr. Presley -- how he served in the Army when he really didn't have...
...Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, S. C. Gwynne, Jeanne McDowell, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman
...Houston Baker, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose name is often mentioned with Gates, says, "The question by the end of the 1970s was how do you move largely political assertions about the autonomy of Afro-American culture and literature toward a more theoretical plane...
Rampersad, whose recent biography of Langston Hughes is "the founding work in Afro-American literary biography," according to University of Pennsylvania Professor Houston Baker, is part of a new generation of Black scholars, educated in top-flight universities around the period of the Civil Rights movement and the student anti-war movement...
There are his shots. How about Bird's stake-in-the-heart three-pointer in Game 6 against Houston that sealed the 1981 NBA championship? Or that stop-and-pop bank shot that completed the stirring comeback in the Philly series the same year...