Word: orall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate of the United States . . . not you); his insistence upon using the word Negro to identify an African American (though recently he had begun to use the term Afro-American); his deep and passionate sympathy for all downtrodden people; the uniqueness of his questioning of attorneys at oral argument (in a case involving the constitutionality of a regulation prohibiting people from sleeping in public parks, the Justice asked the Deputy Solicitor General whether he had ever been homeless...
...many years the person to whom people with unorthodox projects would go," said Brinkley, who is now a professor of history at Columbia University. "He sponsored [the book] All God's Dangers, an oral history of a Black sharecropper, at a time when it was hard to imagine anyone at Harvard would accept...
...gray plastic tubing threaded through it, the ends pointing inward. The whole inside of the cube is lined with these enormous glossy hairs. You can't not see it as organic: sea anemone, vagina. And it refers back culturally too, since its obvious predecessor is that icon of oral sex in the Museum of Modern Art, Meret Oppenheim's fur-lined cup and spoon. What happens then to the famous hands-off character of Minimalism -- austere objects fabricated by remote control, factory-made to specifications issued by the artist...
Inevitably, it finally overcame her. This set offers not only a living piece of her life in music but a kind of oral history of the last years as well. Producer Phil Schaap has included 1 1/2 hours of newly discovered material, rehearsals in 1955 where Lady Day runs through some tunes, runs over a little history ("Jesus Christ. Man broke my heart and I needed the loot"), runs down some collaborators ("The dirty bum," she says of her producer, Norman Granz. "I hate that son of a bitch") and in general gives a strong account of the spirit that...
...conservatives think the bishops have been bending before the feminists, and the feminists think the bishops have caved in to Vatican pressure." After agreeing to prepare the document in 1983, the bishops made an elaborate effort to hear out alienated women. Some 75,000 women offered written and oral testimony, and the first draft in 1988 was filled with accounts of their distress. That version urged rapid study of the idea of allowing women to be deacons, who perform many ministerial functions, and more leisurely consideration of priesthood...