Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long Puerto Rico has suffered from a policy of benign neglect by the United States, which is a shame because Puerto Rico is in an unique position in a sort of limbo between the United States and Latin America, so it is so important that the U.S. learn more about us to better communicate with Latin American nations," said Capella...
Staffers at TIME learn to live with the necessary but often confining space constraints of journalism. Quite a number of them, however, have found an antidote for the weekly squeeze: writing books. "I enjoy the long haul of a book," says TIME Art Critic Robert Hughes, author of the best-selling The Fatal Shore (Knopf), a 688-page history of his native Australia's years as a British penal colony. "Books give you a greater sense of proprietorship," says Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, whose ninth work, City of Nets (Harper & Row), details the Hollywood of the 1940s. "They are something...
...once the bromide may be true: you don't learn songs like Stay with Me, you have to have lived them. This woman has a right to sing the blues. To hear her story is to find autobiography in every Midler song, and tragedy as the punch line. All that love, drive and desperation in her voice had to come from somewhere. Most of it came from Honolulu...
...Susan out of the house when she came home too late. He taught my younger brother Daniel, who is brain damaged, to read and write by hammering and screaming at him until he got it. Every afternoon. None of us wanted to be in the house. But Daniel did learn, and it's made a big difference in his life. It gave him freedom. My father always thought I was a little odd. He never chose to see me perform -- except on Johnny Carson. He said I looked like a loose woman. My mother, on the other hand, thought...
...Flintie Ray Williams' calculation, "the basic thing every college basketball player needs to learn is that everyone can't end up in the N.B.A. It took me about a year and a half after I quit playing to fully grasp that. In another place, I think I might have been lost after basketball. Coach Tarkanian helps the players get to that point where they're real with themselves, and then the town generally offers them a living. It's not such a terrible deal." Stars parking cars may not be the jackpot, but they know when to fold...