Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Africa. As Rivers says, it's long past time for black leaders "to come from under the shroud of denial and apathy" and make fighting the African AIDS crisis a front-burner issue in next year's presidential campaign. In other words, to transform our professed love for our Motherland into more than Afrocentric lip service...
...Sometimes as an African-American I feel out of touch with Africa. As a student at Harvard sitting in the audience, I had a chance to get in touch with the motherland. I hope it becomes an annual event," James said...
...book, co-authored with a party lieutenant, is full of lusty pensees. All hotels should maintain sex agencies "for guaranteeing the sexual needs of the guests." Licensed prostitutes should be launched into space to reduce the stress of the Motherland's weary cosmonauts. Ditto for the fellows suffering in the armed forces and Russia's teeming prison colonies...
...traitor to the Motherland or anything, Boym says she prefers sake to vodka. But if it's going to be vodka, it's absolutely Absolut. "Because I like the name," explains Boym. Although when she's expecting guests or grad students she says she buys Stolichnaya, just to "live up to their expectations of Russian-ness...
...Like a cliche. But the heaviest chain strapping down my thought was shattered only after sophomore year, and not at college. It was coming home to the motherland, and presenting the new me to Mama...