Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fascinated by how little Americans know about their early art and its role in the nation's life. He recalls Adams' contemporary, Thomas Jefferson, admiring the Maison Carree at Nimes in France. Moved by its classical structure, he decided it should be the model for the new capitol in Richmond, Virginia. "Noble, astringent, eloquent," remarks Hughes, "just what the new republic stood for." That's a series we'll tune...
...only the second time since it was enacted in 1988, a federal statute has been invoked to permit capital punishment for violent drug traffickers. In this case, the sentencing came against a trio of brutal Richmond, Virginia, cocaine dealers who murdered 11 people over a two-month period while running a lucrative crack gang called the New York Boyz. In one instance the gang burst into the house of a woman who owed them a few hundred dollars and shot her dead...
Virginians have been anxious to change their state image as the gunrunning capital of the East Coast and reduce the hauls taken in by police from the streets, such as these found in Richmond. And so, urged on by Governor L. Douglas Wilder, both chambers of the state's legislature passed new gun- control legislation last week. While slight differences in the two versions of the measure have to be ironed out, both contain a central feature that perhaps only the National Rifle Association could consider unreasonable and lobby strongly to defeat: people will ordinarily be able...
There were so many long odds and so many graceful triumphs in the lifetime of Arthur Ashe. More than seem plausible for a black youngster from segregated Richmond, Virginia, whose ticket to worldwide renown and recognition was punched in a sport that was almost the definition of a game for whites. More than seem reasonable for a man who suffered the first of several heart attacks at age 36, while at the peak of his considerable game. More than seemed attainable to stunned observers who wept with him in April of last year when he announced (under the pressure...
...could demonstrate that was so. Postwar Richmond was a city where African Americans still knew their place and kept to it. In 1955 Ashe was turned away from the Richmond city tennis tournament because of his color. But that merely presented an opportunity to turn the other cheek: "Drummed into me above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing...