Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Hospital officials were indignant because the state released its report without first giving them the opportunity to comment. "This is not the proper way to do business," fumed Thompson. "People read the health department's report in the newspapers and think it is gospel. It is, in fact, a poorly investigated, erroneous account of what happened." In a hastily prepared but detailed 35-page reply, the institution defended its pre-surgery evaluation of Warhol and said the artist was neither allergic to the antibiotic nor overhydrated. It did admit that staff nurses should have visited his room more frequently...
...crusading zeal and seems to run on forever. Such journalistic tomes frequently seem created as much to please award judges as to satisfy readers. "We're thinking about putting the following helpful advisory over them," syndicated Humor Columnist Dave Barry wrote this month. "'Caution! Journalism Prize Entry! Do Not Read...
...taste" as guaranteed by the First Amendment. David Salniker, executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, which operates one of the stations reprimanded by the FCC, argued that the agency is far too vague about where it is drawing the line. "Does this mean that Alice Walker can't read from The Color Purple anymore, as she has on our station, because the book deals with incest?" he asked...
...declared. "The other man," of course, is the 26 million blacks who live in South Africa and its "independent homelands" and who outnumber the whites by more than 5 to 1. Botha said he was prepared to grant "the other man" equal rights, but he quickly added, "I never read in the Bible that to be a good Christian means I must commit suicide to please the other...
...Anatoli Rybakov's startling novel, Children of the Arbat, which takes place during Stalin's reign of terror. The publication has been eagerly anticipated by Soviet intellectuals for more than a year, and many are hailing it as the literary event of their generation. People who have already read the novel are heaping praise on it. "This is a great book, a great moment in our literature," declared Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. "Rybakov was the man to do this. He is old enough to be a witness to that time. Mother History chose him. After this, it will be impossible...