Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perfect producer begins to emerge. CBS News's Susan Zirinsky may not have those physical characteristics (she stands 5 ft. 1 1/2 in. in her sneakers), but she's got the rest down cold. In fact, when Film Director James Brooks needed a model for Holly Hunter's role in Broadcast News, he chose the 36-year-old dynamo. Last week Zirinsky was -- where else? -- in the heat of the action down on the Democratic Convention floor plotting stories, gathering information and arranging interviews with Correspondent Ed Bradley. A night in the real life of a floor producer...
...where attitudes toward racial questions are concerned. I think Dukakis is just as sensitive to them as I was, or other Democrats in the past were . . . When Jesse Jackson asked me to intercede, I didn't think it was appropriate for me to act in any sort of public role, because that insinuates that Dukakis is actually incapable of resolving differences. But I talked to Bentsen after that, and I talked to Dukakis representatives...
Rossiaud's study is one of a growing number of works on the role of prostitutes in history, and he uses an impressive and exhaustive study of ancient French archives to show how prostitution came to be in medieval France. The author has clearly spent a considerable amount of time collecting and reading court records, marriage contracts and prison sentences from the cities of Lyons, Dijon and Toulouse, and he uses these to uncover the moral code that existed in the French urban areas...
Rossiaud's book doesn't present a cheery view of the role of women in the Middle Ages. Prostitutes were mere laborers for the common good, functioning without status, clout or social position. And he shows that they flourished only because taking them away would have made matters worse, as violence and unwed mothers plagued the countryside...
Harvard's response says that the changed wordsare of no consequence, McArthur's role in the casewas widely-known and that all that was deletedfrom the report was "a very tepid appraisal of[Jackson's] creativity...