Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poetry and photography came together in that instant, and the connection of the two was the topic of Ginsberg's speech on photographic poets in the second of three lectures sponsored by the Friends of the Harvard Art Museums called Focus on Photography...
...voted off the bench in 1986, made a shaky debut when she delivered a commentary in rhyme on the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. KGO then added former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, out of office just two months, as an occasional analyst. Her first topic: the Bay City's budget deficit, and why it is not her fault...
Nuclear-arms negotiation does not sound like a promising topic for a play, particularly not for a comedy. Visions come to mind of tables thumped and warheads somberly debated, of apocalypse incurred by accident or satirized with Dr. Strangelove glee. The pop-culture memory remains cluttered with the tendentious alarmism of the 1960s and with more recent, ham-fisted TV mega- epics such as World War III and The Day After. It is hard to see how any narrative on the subject could avoid being either dogged and dull or archly ironic and malicious. But Playwright Lee Blessing has brought...
...Alamo has been a controversial topic among Hispanics because a recent film made to commemorate the event downplayed the role of Spanish-Americans in defending the fort from the Mexican army. Protesters were expected to attend a rally at the Alamo yesterday...
...light of the "Animal House" reputation of many college Greek houses, this weekend's annual Northeast Panhellenic and Intrafraternity Conference in Baltimore has made the changing role of fraternities and sororities on campus the main topic of debate...