Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francisco, Adam lives with Huck, who somehow maganes to be raising a one-year old child, Christopher. Adam wonders who the child's mother is. But he doesn't ask. Then, this woman Lucille, who refuses to wear anything but men's tuxedos begins to show up in Adam's room at bizarre hours of the night, just to make love to him and then leave as mysteriously as she enters. Adam sees her during the day, but he is unwilling to ask her where their relationship stands. He does not even presume to think that they are lovers...
...just as he had done before becoming a justice. Fortas knew deep down that such a bending of the doctrine of separation of powers was not right, and though he never made such an admission, his omissions on the subject before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings show his own doubts...
Staff members at Montlake Community Day School try to come up with new ways to entertain and stimulate their charges, about 20 kids who range in age from five to eleven. Every day there are fresh art projects, and occasionally there are puppet-show premieres. The children construct large forts out of masking tape and tightly rolled newspapers. There are sing-alongs and story sharings at snack time...
Oprah Winfrey overcame childhood abuse, teenage rebellion and TV imagemakers to become host of the tube' s most popular daytime talk show...
...those given to white plaintiffs. A 1985 Rand Corp. study of 9,000 civil cases in Cook County, Ill., from 1959 to 1979 found that the median award to a white in a wrongful-death auto accident was $79,000; for a black it was $58,000. Other studies show that sentences for black criminals tend to be longer than those handed down to whites convicted of similar crimes. While blacks make up only 12% of the general population, they account for nearly half of all prison inmates and about 40% of those on death...