Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...names have changed but the song remains the same. Prince, also short and mysterious, is the man with the vision. Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Wendy Melvoin, and Lisa Coleman are among the visionary's close-knit circle of talented friends. Unlikely Minneapolis is the setting and unknown starlet types, mostly Prince's girlfriends, have turned into recording "artists" like Vanity, Appolonia, and Sheila...
...Sunday afternoon to see his current girlfriend, a nurse who is trying to disentangle herself from their affair. Within hours, both are dead of gunshot wounds, apparently administered by Theo in a murder-suicide. This event throws the members of the Quick family, their friends and the close-knit society of Mountain City into paroxysms of confusion and self-reproach. What made Theo do it? Could he have been saved, and, if so, who failed...
...warm, fatherly image who peaked relatively late in life, Cosby purveys a message of optimism and traditional family values. At a time when real-life families are weathering problems of drugs and divorce, the Huxtable clan on The Cosby Show is the very model of a strong, close-knit, parent-dominated unit. The fact that the family is black, without making a particular point of it, is an encouraging sign of maturity in matters of race. For whites as well as blacks, The Cosby Show is a weekly source of comfort and wisdom. "I hear white working-class families quoting...
...they discover each day. In Eagle Butte, S.D., Geri Gutwein has designed a writing project in which her ninth-grade students exchange letters with third-graders about stories they have read together. This year a few of her students will sit with Cheyenne women who tell tales as they knit together, their heritage becoming grist for today's young writers...
That tough winnowing process, crafted by the framers to cool passions for change, is by most accounts a good thing. A constitution is supposed to be a tightly knit plan of government, not an open statute book. Bulk can even be an inverse indication of its power: the 181 articles in the constitution of the Weimar Republic were the Maginot Line of German democracy. "It's dangerous to amend the Constitution too much," says Columbia University Law Professor Vincent Blasi. "It won't have the look of fundamental...