Word: shook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine minutes that shook the wimp image were not nearly as spontaneous as they seemed. For both sides the encounter had been meticulously planned. By the middle of December CBS News had already aired a series of political profiles. Richard Cohen, senior political producer of the Evening News, lobbied for a different approach to Bush, one that centered on the Iran-contra affair. Rather and other producers agreed. In early January Cohen sent a letter to the Bush campaign requesting a lengthy taped interview for a campaign profile. "Part of our early coverage of the 1988 presidential election has been...
...aging Beat poet Allen Ginsberg chanted om in Lincoln Park. Jean Genet, the French homosexual playwright and ex-convict, wrote titillated prose about how attractive and powerful the cops' thighs were. Abbie Hoffman developed a cordial relationship with the plainclothes policemen assigned to tail him everywhere, but he shook them sometimes and spirited around town in a score of disguises...
Issues relating to sex -- and sexism -- also shook the United Methodist Church last week. In Houston 48 conservative pastors issued a protest against moves to make the church more accepting of homosexual behavior and to expunge supposedly sexist references to the Trinity in worship. Replacing the phrase "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" with such feminist formulations as "Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer," they charged, defies both Scripture and tradition. The caucus attacked a recent proposal by the national staff to drop a formal prohibition against "self-avowed, practicing homosexuals" in the clergy. Both issues promise to cause a fight...
Some of the year' s most unforgettable photographs focus on a superpower summit, a stock- market panic and a congressional probe into a scandal that shook a government. Others are on a more human scale: a Pontiff embracing a young AIDS victim, a preacher fallen from grace, a wide- eyed little girl rescued from a well in Texas. All are presented in a 24- page portfolio...
Afterward the weary opponents shook hands and stayed onstage for several minutes discussing the game. But the two Ks' show is hardly over. In 1990 the glasnost man must defend his title. His opponent? Don't bet against the dour "apparatchik...