Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grendels, a 27-year-old establishment that was the subject of a landmark church and state separation Supreme Court decision, has submitted preliminary sketches of proposed renovations to the 200-year-old Winthrop Street house, formerly University office space, which they purchased from Harvard this April...
...Diana, what picture among the thousands they will hold in their mind, it would not be Diana at an official ceremony, or with a boyfriend, or even with her children. It would be her on the day of her wedding, when all the world was glad to be her subject and when she gave everyone who looked at her the improbable idea that life was beautiful...
...make some sense of them. Don't stray too far right; you'll invite charges of callousness. But don't huddle too close to the left; you'll be criticized for rabble rousing. And along the way, be mindful of readers' easy exhaustion with the whole subject...
...survive her. "No one who knew Diana will ever forget her," she said. "Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her." For some of those millions, seven minutes of rehearsed sympathies seemed a frustrating display of royal reticence. But at least one subject interviewed afterwards by reporters felt that he understood: the Queen, he insisted, had said all she could...
...most filmgoers, Dandridge is either a faded memory or no memory at all; but her life and death are the stuff of movie legend, and a poignant cautionary tale for the audience that adored her. Thus even before she gets an hour-long Biography, she is the subject of a careful, doting biography--film historian Donald Bogle's Dorothy Dandridge (Amistad Press; 613 pages; $27.95)--and of a contest among black stars to play her onscreen. It is the hottest bio-pic property for a black actress since Lady Sings the Blues, the story of Billie Holiday--a doomed figure...