Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MISSISSIPPI BURNING. As G-men investigating racially motivated murders, Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe become entrenched in the civil rights movement. From the black community's frightened silence to the local lawmen's self-righteous denials, director Alan Parker has powerfully reimagined a time and place...
...senior editor in 1983, where one of his first duties was editing a cover article on the dangers of cholesterol. Eighteen months ago, Brand returned to his first love, writing, and has since applied his curiosity to such subjects as Asian-American students, the environment and the hospice movement. In preparation for this week's stories, Brand so immersed himself in the subject that he even had his own cholesterol count checked. He was relieved to find it was 170, well within the low-risk range. But that should have come as no surprise. A self-described "food fanatic," Brand...
Wellbury said though the survey has received a considerable amount of publicity, there has never been any major movement toward reinstating the old system...
Soviet sources said the pressure to devote more resources to domestic needs means Gorbachev will try to end to the "enemy image." He also will try to convince Fidel Castro in Cuba that it is time to de-emphasize the revolutionary movement in Latin America...
Burnished by Gene Hackman' s strong acting, Mississippi Burning recalls the past -- violence in the civil rights movement -- to inform the spirit of today, and perhaps tomorrow...