Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hunger for stories is enriching novelists as well. Producer Richard Zanuck was filming Driving Miss Daisy a year ago when he heard about a first- time novelist peddling a manuscript based on her real-life experience as a Texas narcotics cop who got hooked on cocaine. By the time author Kim Wozencraft sold Rush to Random House for a $35,000 advance, Zanuck had already won the film rights for $1 million. The price was no fluke. Last month Tom Cruise paid about $1 million for the rights to Big Time, a novel by mystery writer Marcel Monticino...
Many dissidents held Liza responsible for not preventing the hunger strike. It should have been obvious to them that Liza had no way of influencing our decision. The refusal to let her rejoin Alexei may have been the immediate cause of the strike. But in a broader sense, it was the consequence of all that had happened to us, including exile in Gorky and a continuation of my struggle for human rights and the freedom to choose one's country of residence. There had been virtually no objection when I declared a hunger strike in 1974 on behalf...
Harvard Students for a Democratic China (HSDC) urges all Harvard students to call their congressional representatives today to request they co-sponsor House Joint Resolution 556 (HJR 556), designating May 13th, the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, as a "national Day in Support of Freedom and Human Rights in China and Tibet...
...many respects, the changes speak more of a revived sense of nationalism than of a hunger for democracy. The descendants of Genghis Khan are rediscovering traces of an identity that was systematically blurred during the decades of Soviet domination. Mongolian script, abandoned in the 1940s in favor of the Cyrillic alphabet, is again being taught. The image of the Mongol hero is back in vogue: a nearly completed joint-venture hotel is named after Genghis Khan, and his visage adorns the label of a local vodka that is bottled / for export. An elaborate memorial to the warrior will soon...
...Eastern Europe breaks free of Moscow's grip and the Soviet Union enjoys unprecedented openness, the espionage world is undergoing its own changes. -- A mistimed bid for the presidency leaves Poles wondering if Walesa is still a savior, or just an ambitious political spoiler. -- A hunger for independence in Soviet Georgia. -- Peru's surprising election...