Word: packed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone who transcribes other people's words truly be called a writer? In Terkel's case the question seems irrelevant. His books may not have the scope of literature or the authority of social science, but they do pack the wallop of theater -- particularly the declamatory, political theater of the 1930s as exemplified by Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty...
...before we pack up those "Number of Days in Captivity" signs and heave a sigh of relief that our new-found allies have finally read Locke and Rousseau, we need to take a closer look...
...hearts and flowers you sent on Valentine's Day are paying off and you need some audio candy to share with that special someone, check out the Lightning Seeds Sense. It plays like a soundtrack from one of John Hughes' eighties Brat Pack flicks--vulnerable and dreamy and above all cute. This is music for the alternative prom...
...Claws of the Dragon, Byron and Pack focus on the career of the sinister Kang Sheng, relying mainly on an official Chinese biography that was prepared when Kang was posthumously expelled from the Communist Party in 1980. Pack is an investigative reporter, and Byron is the nom de plume of a "Western diplomat" who is apparently an intelligence officer. He picked up the internal document from a Chinese contact on a dark street in Beijing...
...curious that after all these years ahead of the pack, Steinem appears surprised and a bit disquieted by the controversy her book has engendered. In one breath she talks about rewriting the introduction to clarify the book's thesis and convert her critics, and in the next she refuses to see herself as a leader. "I wrote out of my personal and political reality and never thought it would have this impact," she admits readily. Breaking down hierarchies has long been her mission, and at 57, she is clearly not about to create a new one. "The point...