Word: reade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There was no world like the one I'd read about and written about, no world like New York of the 40s. I discovered a very stratified scene and a new professionalism," Atlas said. "You can't live the Bohemian life, you have to have a job....And now it's very complicated business. All these young writers talk about their agents and their hard-soft deals and they're being marketed...
According to a communique read on the Burkina Faso radio, the country's borders were closed, a 9 p.m.-5 a.m. curfew imposed, and Sankara's National Revolutionary Council dissolved. It declared today a holiday so the nation could celebrate the former president's ouster...
...after she posed as a secretary for a typewriter ad with the tag line, as Hite recalls, "The typewriter is so smart she doesn't have to be." On impulse, Hite joined ranks with members of the National Organization for Women who were protesting the ad. In 1971 Hite read a pamphlet in the NOW office, The Myth of Female Orgasm, and decided to create a questionnaire on the issue for a NOW-sponsored "speak-up." As she read the women's responses about their sexuality, "a whole picture of the universe began to fall into place," says Hite. "Without...
...defendants, all Islamic fundamentalists, stood as still as wax figures in the Tunis courtroom while Judge Hachemi Zammel forcefully read out each verdict and sentence. Their trademark beards had been shaved off when they were jailed in a series of roundups earlier this year, but their piety remained intact. When the judge completed his task, the prisoners broke into refrains of "Allahu Akbar" (God is great). Seven were sentenced to death, 69 to jail terms, and 14 were acquitted. Thirty-seven of the accused, including five of those marked for execution, were still in hiding and were tried in absentia...
Under a banner that read MOVING AHEAD, party leaders and 1,400 mostly dispirited delegates agreed to a formal reappraisal of Labor's direction, following three straight electoral losses to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. With an eye toward broadening party appeal, Labor promised to reassess even such sacred party tenets as state ownership of industry and unilateral nuclear disarmament, which Deputy Party Leader Roy Hattersley called the "major vote loser" in the past election. Party Leader Neil Kinnock said, "We have got to appeal to the voters we need...