Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the American lexicon -- "police riot." When the beating and rock throwing stopped, the Democratic Party lay in ruins. An alarmed Middle America turned its attention to Miami where the Republicans, unbeleaguered by the Armies of the Night, hoisted Richard Milhous Nixon toward the Presidency. The era of the Silent Majority was about to begin...
...marches and speeches that would end with a giant rally in Washington. But the civil rights leader insisted on marching in Memphis, where black sanitation workers employed by the city were demonstrating to form a union. These men, he said, were abused and overworked, yet unwilling to remain silent -- exactly the qualities he was looking for. Said King: "You're doing in Memphis what I hope to do in the Poor People's Campaign...
...Harvard Film Archive will celebrate its 10th anniversary with lectures on preservation and restoration of films, newsreels, silent movies, foreign films and Andy Warhol's experimental films...
...opera world. A year and a half ago, he won the powerful job of artistic director at the still uncompleted Opera de la Bastille. In September the grateful government awarded him the Legion of Honor. But now Barenboim's luck has turned. While President Francois Mitterrand kept silent, he was summarily fired -- and just as summarily vowed to sue. He denounced the "lies, half- truths, bad faith and especially the incompetence of those in charge...
...respectful of its leaders. But last week the Bundestag convened in an unaccustomed turmoil of accusation and recrimination over West Germany's role in building Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Members shouted angry questions at a government spokesman, to the visible discomfort of a dour and silent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "Once again our history has caught up with us," said Norbert Gansel, arms-control spokesman for the opposition Social Democratic Party, referring to the country's Nazi heritage. "Once again the evil, blinkered German is there in the cartoons and the editorials, and the federal government...