Word: maya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Manhattan, both Toni Morrison and Cindy Crawford were in attendance. The gathering, held at a restaurant where it's difficult to get a reservation unless you call long in advance or are a recent recipient of an MTV Video Music Award, was a starry one. Mariah Carey. Barbara Walters. Maya Angelou. They were all there. Oprah worked the room, shining attention on each guest briefly but brightly, a passing Lexus with her high beams on. The occasion was a celebration of Oprah's star turn in the new film Beloved and of her appearance on the cover of Vogue magazine...
BORN. To former co-stars and current newlyweds UMA THURMAN, 28, and ETHAN HAWKE, 27: a girl, Maya Ray; in New York City...
...contributing writer to The New York Times, Kaminer cited the fact that in the 1995-96 school year, Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings was the "most challenged book in the United States"--purportedly due to pornographic content...
Lansing and the other organizers of the film festival, Maya F. Durrett and Rebecca S. Sockbeson, are all students in GSE's Risk and Prevention program. This film festival is an outgrowth of their class, "Issues in Contemporary Native American Education...
...Maya Angelou has written that "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived / But, if faced with courage, need not be lived again." In terms of pure, unflinching courage, the Founding Fathers' "Liberty and Union Now and Forever" could not hold a candle to the muscular, subversive shock of one woman's "They shoot the white girl first." A roomful of listeners paid tribute last Friday night to a great artist, whose wizardly deployment of language continues to offer us hope that history may be, or maybe has already been, redeemed...