Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something, and she portrays an America that actually exists, that exists now. Jasmine is the story of an Indian girl who emigrates to America, shedding selves as she moves to, and through, this country, eventually realizing herself as genuinely American. It's a book about disintegration and change, constant rebirth in the midst of bewildering opportunity: she is Jyoti, then Jasmine and later, in Iowa, Jane Ripplemeyer, though even this is not an endpoint...
...maybe rap is shaking and shaping different lives the same way. It has some of that same risky, visionary power. "Rap today is what lyrical rock 'n' roll was in the '60s," Neil Young says. "The message is really important, and it's a rebirth of language," says Peter Case. All right. History will see to that...
...evidence of this impending rebirth of vigor and social activism, the authors point to a motley hodge-podge of completely unrelated events. They cite the politicization of comic strips like "Bloom County" and "Cathy." They herald the social conscience of Rain Man and the The Good Mother...
...Foreman manages to conquer it again? Money? "A lot of it," Foreman acknowledges. Not for lavish houses in California, or Mercedes and Corvettes. Foreman has had those. "For the kids," he explains. "I want to give them the same shot I had." The ninth-grade dropout got his rebirth in the Job Corps. Since 1984, he's dispensed his own good deeds at the George Foreman Youth and Community Center on Houston's north side. The small gym with its boxing ring and exercise gear is an after-school haven for 400 youths, some of them too poor to afford...
...forest, sometimes encircled by heavily burned areas. Blackened stands of lodgepole pine and Douglas fir should gradually become meadows of aspens, wildflowers and grass; life will go on. "From an ecological standpoint, there was no downside," says John Varley, the park's chief of research. "It is not a rebirth because there was not a death...