Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This will be painless," declared Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Biden last week. And so it was for Supreme Court Nominee Anthony Kennedy, as he breezed through his confirmation hearings before the same panel that put Robert Bork through a bruising, highly partisan interrogation last summer. Kennedy's deferential manner, as well as a "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association, guaranteed easy treatment...
Sharon's song is not the first hit about child abuse. Last summer Folk-Rock Singer Suzanne Vega reached the Top Ten with Luka, a more understated and artful approach to the topic. Nonetheless, the mournful plea of Dear Mr. Jesus clearly strikes a chord. "You can go on with child-abuse announcements and public service all you want," says Buddy Scott, program director for WBBM-FM in Chicago, "but this song causes an emotion in you that you really are not prepared...
...were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail the liberal Habgood, 60, as a successor to Runcie, 66, who many expect will vacate the see of Canterbury after presiding over a meeting of the world's Anglican bishops next summer. The essay was viewed as a conservative vote of no confidence to press Runcie into stepping down...
...pink pump for a running shoe, the better to thump her bass drum; Mary the violinist, of stern Scandinavian stock, uptight, humorless and "best remembered locally for her performance as Anita in West Side Story"; and Mike the gentle, wistful synthesizer player who found himself during the 1967 Summer of Love and once played with an acid- rock band called Thursday's Grief. They are terribly earnest, terribly sincere and just plain terrible. If it really is hip to be square, the Oil City Symphony is further along the cutting edge than the Talking Heads...
...Arias Sanchez's message last week was short, simple -- and aimed directly at the two superpowers. "Let Central Americans decide the future of Central America," the Costa Rican President told his Oslo audience. "Send our people plowshares instead of swords." Then Arias, who won his prize for formulating last summer's Central American peace plan, beamed happily as he accepted his gold medal...