Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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VIRGINIA: Votes Yes, Money...
...piano when he was five, picking out notes when he accompanied his mother and father to church. It was these little improvs that led his parents to buy a piano. Roberts' mother was a gospel singer, his father a longshoreman, and it was no easy thing to come by money. At first young Marcus taught himself, and after a year he was good enough to play in church. He played with one hand or the other, but still hadn't figured out how to make both work together. "Horrible hand position," he remembers. At twelve, he started to take formal...
Pierce's bitterness over his lot in life helps make him its prisoner. His quick temper has got him fired from jobs that might have enabled him to buy his boat and independence. Banks will not lend him money. He has no telephone at home because he ripped it out of the wall during a fit of anger. He poaches clams at a neighboring bird sanctuary, more out of orneriness than hope of profit. And, to complicate his existence still further, he has fallen into a love affair with Elsie Buttrick, the local game and fish warden...
...under and refusing to say whether he would veto any other restrictions. His indecision will not cost him pro-choice votes -- "There is no alternative," says Maria Briancon -- but it may lose him financial support. Abortion-rights groups are planning to bypass the Virginia race and pour their money into New Jersey. To the extent that they make a major effort in Virginia, it will be on behalf of Democrat Don Beyer, a pro-choice candidate who is running against Republican Edwina Dalton, an antiabortionist, for Lieutenant Governor...
...release. Although he doesn't particularly enjoy acting, Lee says, he stars in his pictures because he knows it will draw moviegoers. Even his appearance in ads for Barneys and the Gap clothing stores has helped attract a mainstream following, though Lee rejects the notion. "Black people spend money at Barneys and the Gap just like everyone else," he snaps...