Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive officer. "It is regrettable that a foreign government has been able to hold hostage our most sacred First Amendment principle. Nevertheless, the safety of our employees and patrons must take precedence." Though American writers' groups were at first slow to react to the controversy, the 2,200- member PEN American Center later issued a statement in support of Rushdie...
...Pen pal of Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender. A compulsive reader whose idea of a grand evening was to curl up, sober, by a fireplace with a stack of paperbacks. A man who told his famously beautiful wife that the only thing to venerate in life is not love but language. This, surely, is not the Richard Burton of the boozy brawls, the ruined talents, the tossed-away millions on baubles for Elizabeth Taylor, the woman he obsessed over but could not stay married to. Yet both personalities come alive in Melvyn Bragg's meticulous biography. Not many surprises...
...shame that everyone who picks up a pen over there is as biased as those who are picking up guns," said Kevin Cullen, a reporter for the Boston Globe...
Scoring PlayerG Gl A Pts Pen P M L. MacDonald 18 17 19 36 10 2 0 Peter Ciavaglia 19 9 27 36 15 30 Allen Bourbeau 18 9 26 35 12 32 C.J. Young 19 16 16 32 6 12 Ted Donato 19 7 21 28 8 24 John Weisbrod 17 13 6 19 10 23 John Murphy 19 8 7 15 2 4 Nick Carone 18 7 8 15 8 16 Tod Hartje 18 2 12 14 8 22 Ed Krayer 19 5 7 12 0 0 Ed Presz 19 7 4 11 10 24 Mike Vukonich...
...Khmer Rouge still rules much of the Kampuchean countryside, where the rebel fighters battle the improving army of the People's Republic. Around Chhun Kiri, 65 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, the Khmer Rouge has stepped up its "war of the villages." At a nearby hospital lay Pen Kea, 40, his leg injured in a guerrilla attack. "The Khmer Rouge comes every three nights," he said. "You have got to be afraid of them...