Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is not to say that the books are models of brevity. No matter what the subject, each volume seems obliged to weigh in at a hefty 300-to-400 pages. The result is that Classical Music for Dummies is only a few pages longer than, say, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Your In-Laws. The latter, like many of the data-lite books in both series, has plenty of filler. One whole chapter, called Crazy Quilt, reminds us that we live in a melting pot (because you never know whom you will end up marrying...
...late 1980s, as Winfrey became a major player in television and the movies (she won an Oscar nomination in 1986 for her supporting role in The Color Purple), her personal interest in slavery had turned into frustration that the subject was so rarely dealt with in popular culture. Even Alex Haley's sweeping slave epic Roots left her wanting. "While Roots was magnificent and necessary for its time," she says, "it showed what slavery looked like, rather than what it felt like. You don't know what the whippings really did to us." Then in 1987, she sat home...
...general, I give completely new courses every year," he said. "I expect to continue to use my teaching to explore new subject matter, this time maybe in a wider horizon...
...good idea, but today it is just one more way your Day of Repentance messes with my busy schedule. I won't lie to you, Lord, because of hunger (and because of this flu bug that I caught from my roommate) my mind wandered to just about every subject but repentance. Actually, I spent most of the service thinking about ways to bolster my Rhodes application, and staring at this girl down the aisle who looked like she'd make a great First Lady...
...principled journalistic decision... I voted with my feet." But not before Talbot, who could not be reached for comment, took one more shot at keeping Broder muzzled. According to Broder, Talbot made Broder's severance package conditional on a promise that Broder say nothing more on the subject. Broder says he thought about it. "Then," he says, "I told him where he could put his money...