Word: separatist
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Sprawling cat-like on top of a podium in Emerson Hall last night, performance artist Holly Hughes described for more than 200 people how she fled the working-class Michigan town of her youth, "a world of E-Z Care Fabric and Hamburger Helper" and became a "separatist lesbian...
Most embarrassing of all, the unlikely May-December alliance between the separatist snowboarders and the International Olympic Committee hardly survived even its honeymoon, as the aged judges said they would revoke the first snow-surfing gold medal ever--when traces of marijuana were found in Canada's Ross Rebagliati, winner of the men's giant slalom--and then were overruled, marking a triumph for rebellion. One foot was speeding forward, it seemed; the other was staying in place...
...dark and boding--a chronicle of deaths foretold. King no longer holds center stage as he did in the first volume. Challenges to the Georgia preacher's pacifist leadership begin to emerge from Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam and later from its leading apostate, the militant separatist Malcolm X. Malcolm's differences with King were unambiguous and raised legitimate questions, not least of which was the right of self-defense. But the man Branch vividly documents as King's most insidious enemy is FBI director J. Edgar Hoover...
...speech in Sanders Theatre on Saturday, however, Jiang said he would not agree to meet with the Dalai Lama until the Dalai Lama had renounced his "separatist" intentions...
Here was a rust-belt city, once a capital of Spanish industry, still rich but now decaying and plagued by the murderous Basque-separatist terrorism of the E.T.A. It was eager to remake itself as a tourist center. It needed a solid emblem of peace and cultural openness. So the Guggenheim deal, though costly, was very attractive...