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Word: parkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Jan Carl Park, a student at the Kennedy School, the panelists provided important, first-hand knowledge about the gay rights movement...

Author: By Joshua H. Simon, | Title: K-School Hosts Gay Activism Forum | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

Leaving aside the obvious observation that when someone stares into the Grand Canyon, humility rather than arrogance might be an appropriate response, this film and its kitsch counterparts diminish the experience that these parks are meant to provide. Turning the Grand Canyon into a theme park ride complete with logo does its visitors no good service. The Grand Canyon need not be packaged neatly with cliches and background music so that its visitors leave with a smile. Far better that they experience the Canyon without a commercial buffer and leave with that beautiful combination of inspiration and bewilderment that comes...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Looking Nature In the Face | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

...some point you make yourself nuts with trying to recreate the world outside inside everything else. We're playing in Los Angeles at the Albertson Theater, which is the finest theater in Los Angeles. And I have no regrets; I mean, it's the best theater, you have parking, you have creature comforts, and no matter how much you talk about Fourth Street, people want to be able to park...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: How We Gonna Pay for Rent? | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...Brazilian legal councilor Jose Felicio, referring to the recent crackdown on diplomats who park their cars illegally in New York City. Diplomats are now being asked to pay their parking tickets within the year or surrender their license plates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...concert featured two of the classical music industry's most famous figures, conductor/composer John Williams and flutist James Galway. Maestro Williams is most widely known for his 75 film scores, including Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, the three Indiana Jones films, E.T., Superman, the Star Wars trilogy and, most recently, Rosewood. For these and others, Williams has accrued five Oscars, one British Academy Award and 16 Grammys. He has also composed many concert pieces, including several concertos, most recently a trumpet concerto commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra. Boston audiences are most familiar with Williams as the conductor of the Boston...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, | Title: Peculiar Partners: The Piper and the Pops | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

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