Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his alacrity for inclusion, he has been rebuffed by repeated exclusions in the past. Ann Lewis, the Democratic strategist, remembers one of her first endeavors with Jackson. They were at the Japanese embassy in Washington, part of a delegation to protest racially condescending remarks made by Premier Nakasone. "Before we went out to meet the press," she recalls, "Jesse gathered us together and said, 'We cannot contribute to any further racism. These people do not know how much trouble they are in, and we must not add to the flames by our remarks.' " Then, as Jackson drove Lewis home...
Jackson sees his campaigns as part of an ongoing process that is changing American politics: "It is important to watch what happens in elections at the county level, all over the nation. The impact of this election is going to be felt in the elections of 1990, when the census is taken, and in 1991, when reapportionment takes place." He wants to build from the consensus established to defeat Bork: "There were fears about letting new people into the process, whether we could handle all these women, or 18-year-olds, or blacks, or homosexuals. But they have all proved...
...Mount Sinai." Calling the proposal "fraught with danger" for Israel, he said the "document does not serve the cause of peace or advance it even by one centimeter." Shamir opposes surrendering the West Bank in return for a promise of peace, arguing that the territory, captured in 1967, formed part of the biblical land of Israel and now provides the nation with more secure borders...
...gestures, cries of encouragement and vivid, running pictorial images that mirror the music's story. "It was only a passing shower," he tells the strings in the Fantastique's adagio. "Now you might live again . . . supposing she is with somebody else . . . you're exhausted . . . what Berlioz says about this part is that the drums define the silence...
...Dick Francis' new entertainment. It is what goes on -- wheels turning in the murky unconscious, and all that -- when one of his characters, caught in some awkwardness, says "er . . ." That unmistakable Francis "er . . ." has got author and readers past many a potentially mushy spot and on to the good part, where the hero is gonked by hired gorillas or injected with horse tranquilizer, and then wakes up, aware that something is wrong, inside a locked steamer trunk...