Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking to an audience in Agassiz Hall, Saxton stressed the need to create adult role models for disabled women. Saxton is director of the Project on Women and Disabilities at the State Office on Handicapped Affairs...
...sure that international opinion played an important role in securing my (and others') early release, but even if it did not, we were extremely warmed and encouraged by the support which came from all over the world...
...Private View involved the casting of the film Dancers, a modern gloss on the classic Giselle. Less than half the troupe's dancers were selected; for the rest, rejection amounted to a devastating appraisal of their entire season. When corps member Julie Kent, 17 and exquisite, won the ingenue role, angry charges of unfairness increased. Fraser notes that when the movie was finished and Kent's disastrous speaking voice squeaked through the land, tempers cooled. Comments Fraser: "Never underestimate the balm of sheer malice...
...spectacle. "What's going on is corporate cannibalism," says Congressman Edward Markey. "We have to ask whether it is in the national interest to allow companies to go so heavily into debt." As chairman of a House subcommittee that covers finance, the Massachusetts Democrat will play a key role in drafting any legislation to curb LBO excesses when Congress reconvenes next year. But lawmakers are uncertain how to limit buyouts, or even if they should...
...scheduled to begin its perennial debate on Palestinian issues, and Arafat wanted to rally support for the Palestine National Council's (P.N.C.) declaration of an independent state. But mainstream American Jewish groups supported Shultz's view that Arafat's role in international terrorism justified preventing the U.N. speech. In late September, 51 Senators urged the Reagan Administration to block Arafat's visit. "I'm prepared to fight this one all the way to the President," Shultz vowed...