Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hollywood needs a regeneration, and the role of spokesman that I singularly failed at is still available to someone -- someone smarter than me, someone American, a person who can articulate on behalf of the greater film community the frustration and the need for change...
Perhaps no one is more aware of China's changing realities than Deng Xiaoping, whose revolutionary credentials are far stronger than those of most of his academic critics. Diplomats who have seen him during the past two months believe that he remains in good form for a person of his age. But he is surely aware that his political power, especially among the young, is on the wane. He can afford to allow university students to let off steam occasionally in pursuit of democracy or in memory of a fallen hero. The test will come if, when the ceremonies...
...written by Justice Blackmun, the Roe ruling forbids states to restrict a woman's right to abortion in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. In the second trimester states may restrict abortion only to safeguard the mother's health. Though the court decided that the fetus was not a "person" under the law, it did recognize that states had an interest in protecting "potential life." Because the fetus was considered viable in the final twelve weeks, states were permitted to ban third-trimester abortions, except those necessary to preserve the health of the mother...
...other business, the council passed motions congratulating Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci on his 74th birthday. The order described Vellucci as "a person who proves that the dreams of yesterday are the realities of today...
...complexity. Meanwhile, the parents must work even harder to pay for it all. When Arlie Hochschild studied working couples in the San Francisco area for a forthcoming book, Second Shift, she found that "a lot of people talked about sleep. They talked about sleep the way a hungry person talks about food...