Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glass began to apply some principles of Indian music to his own compositions. His colleagues, however, were skeptical. Recalls Glass: "A friend of mine said that my work wasn't real music. Well, I looked around Paris and concluded that to express myself I'd have to go some place else." In 1967 he went back to New York...
...nobody's business but mine and the committee's what books we select," said a testy Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who headed the selection committee. John Macrae III, chairman of the IFP, noted that "the important thing here is the principle of the government trying to have a hand in the choosing of books for exhibition, not what books are selected." The books were supposed to reflect the diversity of opinion in America. That goal has been duly accomplished -- if not by the list, at least by the debate about...
Mouthing off comes naturally. Every time there was a talent show or a musical in school, I was always in it. Cinderella and the Wizard of Oz and Godspell and My Fair Lady: the ingenue role was always mine. But when there was a role for, like, a forward, bad girl, everybody sort of unanimously looked over at me when they were casting...
...Communist takeover in 1949 have U.S. Navy warships been permitted to enter Chinese waters. So when Peking last August agreed that American vessels could pay a port call, Washington laid plans to send three ships to Shanghai this spring. But last month the proposed visit hit an unexpected mine. Hu Yaobang, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, announced that only "conventional" American ships would be welcome. Since the U.S. refuses as a matter of policy to state which of its vessels carry nuclear weapons, the two countries were at a diplomatic impasse. Last week Peking and Washington took...
Mayor Ed Koch led the procession, pushing the wheelchair of Long Island Assemblyman John Behan, 40, who lost both legs to a land mine near Da Nang. General William Westmoreland marched for a bit, then dropped out to watch from the reviewing stand, but finally rejoined the straggle in the street (against the advice of police) when passing Army vets invited him with the call, "Westy! Westy!" Said he: "I love these guys, and I am going to march with them." Spectators and veterans repeatedly came together in spontaneous embraces. After bussing a woman of about 60, Brooklynite Mark Carraway...