Word: summer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Artists at Harvard and nationwide rallied against the so-called Helms Amendment this summer, when it was originally passed by the Senate. And they continue to say that While groups such as Harvard's art museums are not likely to lose any funding, the legislation will still set an unfortunate precedent...
Helms launched the furor this summer, when hedeclared the NEA-funded exhibits of photographersRobert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano offensiveand sacrilegeous. In particular, Helms and othercritics blasted the homoerotic content of some ofMapplethorpe's work and a Serrano picture of acrucifix submerged in urine...
...apparent reaction to criticism fromcommunity members about a closed decision-makingprocess, B.U. and the school committee formed anoversight committee this summer to monitor B.U.'smanagement and to report to the state Board ofEducation...
...most famous man in China this summer seems to be Xiao Bing, the "rumormonger" who was sentenced to ten years in prison for "exaggerating" the Tiananmen death toll in an interview with ABC News (he said 20,000 had died). Absolutely everyone knows the tale of Xiao. "Xiao Bing makes a point about the future," says an economics professor in Chengdu. "The people in Beijing were there -- and so may be very willing to take to the streets again. But we elsewhere are more cautious. It's not that the propaganda campaign is working. Most of us know full well...
...before she could know him. Her mother having remarried and moved away, Samantha has chosen to stay behind and share the tumbledown family home in Hopewell, Ky., with her uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis), a veteran damaged by the war in some way he refuses to name. Now in the summer after her high school graduation, she comes upon the letters her dad wrote from Nam, and eventually his diary. Using this material to chart her way, she sets out, innocent but determined, to reimagine her father and the long-ago war that took him from...