Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, the Central Committee also endorsed a minor shake-up in the ruling Politburo. Out went the ineffectual former Premier, Jozef Pinkowski. In came two workers, Gerard Gabrys, a miner, and Zygmunt Wronski, a molder at the Ursus tractor factory. Their inclusion in the party's supreme body, said Kania, was "the first step toward extending the representation of workers from the provinces into the Politburo...
...form to arouse that sort of passion. If one employs Salvador Dali's Paranoid Critical Method, one starts suspecting that television's visceral meretriciousness is what we actually adore. In a medium populated by yahoos of the most defiant sort, the rest of us cannot help feeling like minor league aristocrats. Maybe we watch to make ourselves feel better. Maybe we watch to feel superior to the mob of Americans which lives "out there" somewhere--out in the Midwest probably...
...minor cannot get parental approval but still wants an abortion, she can petition a Superior Court or go to another state not restricting abortions...
...first public appearance with Charles, when she wore a strapless gown, caused the kind of minor sensation that seemed to belong to a more innocent age. In those first early days, as she was preparing for the wedding and preparing to be Charles' consort away from the gaze of press and public, she had already become an instant part of popular mythology, an indelible woman of the new decade, as we will see in Dressed to Thrill, Chapter 3 of Monarchy in Love...
...angst: the transformation from practicing Jew to militant Communist, a journey taken by thousands of thinkers and millions of chanting followers from the steps of the Winter Palace to the barbed wire of the Gulag. Wiesel reduces that odyssey to the tale of a single wanderer, Paltiel Kossover, a minor poet whose life becomes a battle between the divine and the dialectic...