Word: kued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAWRENCE, Kan.-As rival political factions fought last month in the streets of Tehran, the emotions and violence spread to the University of Kansas (KU) campus...
Giamatti, who was prevented from delivering his remarks in person when he was hospitalized for removal of a kidney stone, also lamented a rise in "antiSemitic episodes" and the growing visibility of the Ku Klux Klan. The New Right, he said, has "licensed a new meanness of spirit in our land, a resurgent bigotry that manifests itself in racist and discriminatory postures; in threats of political retaliation; in injunctions to censorship; in acts of violence." He added: "What disgusts me so much about the 'morality' seeping out of the ground around our feet is that it would deny...
...even crass about-face. Instead of the Gustons the art world knew-abstract paintings with vaporous, knitted surfaces of pearl gray and subtle pinks, like fragments of Monet lily ponds with hints of Turner's clouds and sea fogs-they were, of all unlikely things, political images: fat Ku Kluxers riding around in cars, nooses, stubbled faces in claustrophobic, smoke-filled rooms. For several years before that, not much had been seen of Guston's work; he was thought to have run out of steam, and so his new work was treated as a gesture of desperation...
October 7--Fifty students prevent the Adams House Film Society from showing D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation," saying that they object to the film's treatment of the Ku Klux Klan...
Still, there is Pryor. Whether he is trying to keep up his nerve while holding up a television store, getting the Ku Klux Klan to help push the bus out of the mud, or merely riding a horse for the first time, he has an indestructible charm. Another comedian might grow desperate in such unpromising circumstances. Not Pryor. The easy subtlety of his glances and gestures, never too big, always wonderfully readable, almost convinces one that something worthwhile is happening here-or is about to. One remains alert to his possibilities. And wishes that the people who make his pictures...