Word: morrison
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...There was a smell and it wasn't good," said Laz V. Morrison, 14, a first-year student at the high school...
...CHIEFTAINS The Long Black Veil (RCA). Ireland's favorite sextet comes to call, the pipes and flutes and fiddles and all, with a breakthrough album after only thirtysomething years together. Paddy Moloney's charts for vocalists from Ireland (Van Morrison), England (Sting), Wales (Tom Jones) and Scotland (Mark Knopfler) do more than revive a splendid set of ancient airs. They are delicious dirges that could wake the dead. Keen music...
...nothing public about [PBS]," Gingrich crowed to a roomful of like-minded enthusiasts in Washington's Capitol Hill Club last February. "It's an elitist enterprise. Rush Limbaugh is public broadcasting." Yeah, and so is Howard Stern--and Jenny Jones is Ken Burns, and Tom Clancy is Toni Morrison. The fact is that no system with as broad and loyal an audience base as PBS repeatedly garners can be called elitist. A national poll conducted for PBS by Opinion Research Corp. indicates that fully 84% of Americans want to see PBS funding maintained or increased and that 82% of them...
Best class she took at Harvard: "Fiction by American Women of Color" because "it was the first time I had really been a minority" in a class. During a discussion of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," in which a young Black girl tears up a blond, blue-eyed doll, Butler was asked for her own reaction. "For the first time, I realized only two or three of us in the class were blond and blue eyed...It made me a lot more aware of stuff [that] you often take for granted...It made me open my eyes a little...
...Asia since the early '80s, covering the region for Newsweek until last year. Last week he was filing reports on Vietnam to our offices in New York as he lay on his bed, suffering from a couple of herniated disks. (To work on his computer, says Asia editor Don Morrison, Gibney "had weights and pulleys rigged up.") The fact that he roams from a base in Vietnam, says Gibney, typifies today's mercurial, surprising Asia. "Five years ago, the story here was coups and authoritarianism. Now it is business. It's all new, and it's great to have...