Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Characterizing political fundraising competition as having an "arms race mentality," Jackson said PAC money was a major cause of abuse. "We don't know where this money is coming from or where it is going," he said, adding that the system was slipping back to the time when there were "no limits whatsoever...
...husband lived in Austin, a Chicago suburb that went from predominantly white to predominantly black. "We had to sell our home for nothing," she said. "What happens if this whole doggone neighborhood gets up and leaves? We're too old to move again." She does not know if she can trust her neighbors not to panic and move out. "It's all white people's fault," she said. "Blacks have a right to live where they want...
...into a rich Franco-Italian banking family with branches in Paris, Naples and New Orleans, Degas was never short of money, and he never doubted his vocation as a painter, in which his family encouraged him. He was a shy, insecure and aloof young man; if one did not know this from the testimony of his friends, one would gather it from his early self-portraits, with their veiled look of mannerist inwardness acquired from Pontormo. It seems he was unusually devoid of narcissism: unlike almost every other 19th century painter one has heard of, he gave up painting...
...front-line states that his journeys offer more than cosmetic change. If anything, Pretoria's state of emergency is more repressive to antiapartheid forces now than it was two years ago. Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, a voluble foe of "the Boers," said stiffly, "I don't know who else Botha will meet. I have no appointment with Botha." Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, who had talks with the South African leader in 1982, demanded preconditions before talking again. There would be "no more meeting with him at all," he said, until Botha delivered on his promises of peace with his neighbors...
...generation that gave us the all-purpose jeer "It sucks" also gave us gonzo journalism, that self-consciously hip form of social commentary. The conventions are rather rigid. The reporter should work for a publication that is liberal in both its outlook and expense-account policies. He should know not only how to do light drugs and hold his liquor but also how to fold these manly vices into the copy...