Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...antiapartheid movement, including activists, politicians, labor leaders and business people, convened in Washington to discuss arrangements. That led to the formation of an organizing committee headed by Randall Robinson, executive director of the antiapartheid group TransAfrica; Lindiwe Mabuza, chief representative of the A.N.C. in the U.S.; and the singer Harry Belafonte. Long before Mandela left Johannesburg on June 4 for Botswana, the first stop on his tour, they were deluged with requests for appearances and meetings. So many of the entreaties were honored that two weeks ago A.N.C. leaders in the Zambian capital of Lusaka requested that the tour...
Over the next five years, more then 4,000 protesters, including Amy Carter, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, then Senator Lowell Weicker and singer Stevie Wonder, would follow them to jail. Another 5,000 were arrested at South African consulates around the country. By that time the movement had developed powerful friends on Capitol Hill, including Kennedy and his fellow Democratic Senators Alan Cranston of California and Paul Simon of Illinois. They saw in the antiapartheid movement an opportunity to strike a blow against the otherwise unassailable Reagan...
...very user friendly, and cluttered. Readers and advertisers were complaining." Jarvis and E.W.'s design director, Michael Grossman, willingly carried out the format revisions. But a more subtle problem was Jarvis' choice of covers, like the one on the very first issue (Feb. 16), which featured the offbeat country singer K.D. Lang. Many media watchers felt that to succeed as a mass magazine, E.W. had to appeal to a broader audience, one perhaps more attracted by covers about Madonna and Dick Tracy...
...space-age family won't be played by live actors in this film set for summer release. Teen-dream pop singer Tiffany provides the voice of George Jetson's daughter Judy...
...edged voice singing "You cut all the tall trees down, you poisoned the sky and the sea . . ." It was the music of Midnight Oil, the crusading Australian rock group, which staged a brief but high-decibel lunchtime concert below the company's windows. Between songs, lead singer Peter Garrett condemned Exxon's Alaskan oil spill. "You can't treat the world like a garbage dump," he said...