Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups, as for individuals, taking a new name is a quintessential American act, a supreme gesture of self-creation in the land where Norma Jean Baker became Marilyn Monroe, homosexuals became gays, and Esso became Exxon. But for many blacks, the choice of a word by which others will know them has a special significance. During their centuries of bondage, slaves had names that were often chosen by their masters. Booker T. Washington wrote in his autobiography Up from Slavery that there was one point on which former slaves were generally agreed: "that they must change their names." This process...
...music lessons. Ben Margolis, 11, of West Los Angeles, has a Roland D-20 that he can mess around with when he's finished his piano lessons. "Nothing can replace the real instrument," he says, "but if you're trying to do sound effects or you don't know how to play another instrument, it's great." But Margolis already has it all in perspective. "The piano is the more beautiful instrument," he says. "But the keyboard is the more interesting...
...last week's diplomacy suggested a way out of the substantive stalemate: how to bring both Israel and the Palestinians to the bargaining table. No one believes Moscow can single-handedly make peace. Any hope of overcoming that logjam still requires American influence. "The Arabs and the Soviets know that until the United States joins the game, there is no game," says a U.S. Administration official. Then perhaps Moscow's aggressiveness will spur the idling Bush Administration...
Robbins is a hard man to please; this is one notoriously imperious impresario. "When I work on a show," he says, "I'm a wasp. You know how a wasp buzzes around and keeps you on your toes and worries about everything. There's a sound in the air that keeps everything moving." At times the buzz becomes a sonic boom. "Jerry was still rehearsing during previews," says Victor Castelli, a City Ballet soloist who is assisting Robbins. "The kids are exhausted because they are not used to it, and Jerry will be frustrated and annoyed and will yell...
...were these unnamed liberals in addition to Khamenei? One was certainly parliamentary Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has hinted that Iran should have ended the war in 1982, after driving the invading Iraqis out of its territory. Within days, he too chimed in with an attack on the West. "We know what our duty is regarding those who are a partner in cursing the Prophet," declared Rafsanjani. "The ground has been laid for a vast battle between Islam on the one hand, and paganism and arrogance on the other." But he tried to forestall stronger reprisals from Europe in case anything...