Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...space. Looking back, the crew members are filled with a sense of isolation, a feeling that will never quite leave them during the 280-day outbound leg of their journey. A busy schedule provides some distraction. The space travelers perform scientific experiments, practice taking shelter against solar-flare radiation, tend vegetables in their hydroponic greenhouses, exercise vigorously for several hours each day and tap into digital libraries for music, light reading matter and courses in Martian meteorology and geology...
...blacks got a brief ride on the B-movie circuit in the '70s (Shaft, Superfly), and Hispanics got short shrift, even as Mexicans were streaming into California to tend moguls' gardens and kitchens. When Latin actors did seize center screen, it was in art-house fodder like Alambrista!, Zoot Suit, El Norte and Crossover Dreams. These films meant well, but they rarely did well. They staggered under the weight of their liberal messages like a postman with the A.C.L.U. on his route. So many good intentions were riding on these films that they became morality plays, long on the uplift...
...good kids could go so far wrong so fast. "James Patrick Cooney was a happy-go-lucky kid, confident of himself." Confident, perhaps cocksure. Away from the protection of adults, Cooney and his friends indulged the illusion they were exempt from death and other mortal coils, as the young tend to do, this time to a deadly...
...thing the Democrats tend to do is put twoNorthern liberals on the ticket, and when they dothat they get about 40 percent of the vote," saidUniversity Professor Sidney Verba...
...attempts to work out his thoughts on abortion and school prayer, which tend towards conservative conclusions, lack the generosity of his other efforts and even his other paragraphs in those same essays. When he remembers his own pleasure at praying in school, or the courage of those patients of his who have chosen to have children when an abortion would have been understandable, Coles is compelling and his wonderment, challenging...