Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Piercy's occasional eloquence and skillful dialogue cannot compensate for Summer People's basic flaw: the lack of an interesting plot. The novel is engrossing enough for a beachside read, but in comparison to Piercy's earlier works, like Small Changes and Braided Lives, it disappoints. Those novels painted likeable, complex charcters, but Summer People offers only shadows of real people, moving in patterns too familiar to be truly interesting...
...demonstrators taunted each other with noisy chants and protest signs on the plaza in front of the court, that is precisely what happened. Seven of the nine Justices emerged from behind the red velvet curtain and took their seats. In the hushed chamber, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist read in his singsong, quivering voice excerpts of the long-awaited decision of the divided court in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. Before he was through, it was clear that the country was about to be plunged into the most corrosive political struggle it has experienced since the debate...
...constitutions contain privacy provisions that might extend to abortion. They will also try to demonstrate their political power at the polls. "America's political landscape will never be the same," says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. "To politicians who oppose choice, we say, 'Read our lips. Take our rights. Lose your jobs...
This time around, drugs are the cause of the day, and face it, they don't compare to nuclear warheads when it comes to striking fear into people's hearts. The horror stories of drugrelated murders that we read in the paper every day are terrifying, but they are a type of terror that is far more conventional than the thought of an entire city being vaporized by a lunatic with an itchy trigger finger...
...torn down and efforts were made to intimidate me into leaving the area. I was told I am not a proper, loyal HUCTW member and I am no longer wanted in the union. Every possible pressure short of physical violence was brought to bean against me. Voters attempting to read out statements were taken aside by Union staff and instructed to ignore it on the grounds that we were a small group of cranks and anti-union activists. Voters were verbally instructed to vote for the contract even as they stood in line at the ballot boxes. There...