Word: o
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Ignatius -- THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, Tom Wolfe -- LEAVING HOME, Garrison Keillor -- THE RADIANT WAY, Margaret Drabble -- ROCK SPRINGS, Richard Ford -- A SOUTHERN FAMILY, Gail Godwin NONFICTION A LIFE IN PEACE AND WAR, Brian Urquhart -- THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN QUEEN, Katharine Hepburn -- MAN OF THE HOUSE, Tip O'Neill with William Novak -- THE MASK OF COMMAND, John Keegan -- MIAMI, Joan Didion -- THE SONGLINES, Bruce Chatwin
...first place, but part of judicial restraint is the question of whether a person is going to reverse a Supreme Court decision that is now part of the fabric of society." Even if it is not reversed, however, Roe could be modified. Like Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Kennedy could end up as a swing vote, helping to refine the boundaries of the right to abortion, based on changing medical and social circumstances...
...what will probably be a lasting claim on memory. Bertolucci has restored to the Forbidden City all the life it once sustained: a detachment of troops clattering through the night to seize a baby from his crib and place him on the throne; the Emperor's English tutor (Peter O'Toole) flapping through the streets on his bicycle; an Emperor and his bride (the lovely, fragile Joan Chen) overwhelmed by their huge wedding chamber; the great courtyard filled with wailing eunuchs, dismissed by their ruler; a tennis court, so strangely out of place in these precincts and yet the locale...
...take up life as a painter. Croft has been accumulating cans, he says, to pay $11,486.72 he owes the Internal Revenue Service in back taxes. He insists that he plans to deliver his entire can stash to the district IRS office in lower Manhattan. IRS Spokesman Neil O'Keeffe says, "There's no provision for paying taxes with cans." So for all its utility, there is evidently one use to which the can cannot...
...that's true," said police captain Rizzo O'Grady, "then he's a superman...