Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film school, he adds he is turned off by the fact that "everyone and his mother wants to go to film school now." For now, Tarver's ideology of cultural activism is at times hidden by his almost sullen silence--and his hair. On first impression, his quiet confidence crosses the line into arrogant rock stardom, and it is difficult to reconcile that image with that of the boy from San Antonio, Texas. Logue--who has lived with Tarver for three years--recalls the first time they met freshman year. "I was sitting outside playing my guitar, when Clay came...
...hardly the first time that American good intentions had led to chaos. In The Quiet American, Graham Greene's 1955 fictionalized but accurate portrayal of early U.S. adventurism in Viet Nam, an American bomb- assassination plot aimed at corrupt South Vietnamese officers goes awry, killing innocent shoppers and children in a Saigon square. Amid the carnage, a confrontation ensues between Alden Pyle, the well-meaning but naive protagonist, and the novel's narrator, a British journalist...
...system for at least five years. Proposed by Commissioner Saul Cooperman and based on a law rammed through the legislature and signed last January by Governor Thomas Kean, the move was the first such action ever taken by a U.S. state against a large urban school district. Moreover, the quiet, toughly effective Cooperman, 53, whose earlier reforms in teacher training have already set national standards, is monitoring ten other troubled districts, including Camden, Hoboken and Newark...
...them out of the house to live with relatives. David and Harriet are left with only their youngest children--Ben and the sensitive Paul. Ben becomes a force for revolution within the home, and a window on the discontent around it. His rebellion causes Harriet to neglect Paul, whose quiet grace infuriates Ben. Lessing's parable of class conflict demonstrates that in a society which is determined not to accept deviance, everyone suffers...
...with ASEAN so long as the Kremlin's ally in the area, Viet Nam, is hunkered down in Kampuchea and intimidating other neighbors with its bloated military power. So the Kremlin's Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia, Igor Rogochev, another polished, new-breed diplomat, has been putting out quiet but unmistakable signals to officials in Hanoi that the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan might provide a "model" for the Vietnamese to follow in Kampuchea...