Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ellis Island, about a mile off the lower tip of Manhattan. The distinguished British writer and advance man for the future wanted to see for himself how arrivals from the Old World were ushered into the new one. He found the process strangely unceremonious. "On they go, from this pen to that," he wrote, "pen by pen, towards a desk at a little metal wicket -- the gate of America...
...millimeter is about one twenty-fifth of an inch, or about the size of the very tip of a ballpoint pen...
...friend, a writer who tells his old mother that he's a waiter. You know the one about the waiter who tells everyone he's really a writer -- well, this is just the reverse. His mother doesn't really know, and he's quite famous. He writes under the pen name of Andrew Holleran. Have you ever heard of Dancer from the Dance? He's the most famous gay writer in America...
...women, especially, the President's callous flick of his pen deals a hard blow. His move only reaffirms that women have to make a choice between their families and their careers. According to the President, it is not a fundamental right that the women of this country should be guaranteed the opportunity to pursue both...
...Disney company hopes to follow its Tracy flick with a new musical version of the classic comic strip. Oscar-winning screenwriter Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) will pen the script...