Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newfound interest led her then to embark on a ten-year project, which eventually culminated in a book that was published this spring, "Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women...
...comic heft of this gorgeous Broadway review, but LaVern Baker (also heard on the Dick Tracy score) gets the same laughs and is, if anything, torchier. In other regards this celebration of blues song and tap dance is better than ever: the all-black cast has infused a newfound Harlem funk into the Busby Berkeleyesque glamour...
Resilient couples have learned to find some advantages in their constant separations. Many speak of having more time for work, friends and hobbies; others point to their newfound self-sufficiency. Shelly London, 38, an AT&T district manager of public relations in Atlanta, and Larry Kanter, 38, a radio news anchor in the same city, find that incompatible hours help keep the romance in their relationship. "We're sort of always newlyweds," London says. "We're real jealous of our time on weekends...
...year is 1948, and in postwar Los Angeles, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson, of course) is enjoying newfound prosperity at his old trade. For a private eye specializing in "matrimonial" cases, a fluid society with a rising divorce rate is bound to mean good times. But some things don't change. Once again a routine investigation of sexual hanky-panky leads Jake to the discovery of much larger depravities. In Chinatown it was the desire to control water in the San Fernando Valley that set the power elite at one another's throats; in The Two Jakes it is the desire...
...Southern Christian Leadership Conference are holding their annual meeting in mid-June. Joseph Lowery, the organization's president, says, "The S.C.L.C. does not endorse candidates. But I does." Yet Lowery marks several points of disagreement with the man who would be Georgia's Governor -- for example, the candidate's newfound support for capital punishment. Even members of Dr. King's organization, for which Young worked in the glory days of the '60s, will give him only qualified support. The Rev. Mr. Lowery continues, "I support Andrew Young, not because he is colored -- for one thing, he ain't all that...