Word: tracee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author of one of The New York Times Book Review's Notable Books of 1994 recounted her quest to trace her family's multiracial roots in a speech to about 120 last night at Agassiz Theatre...
After extensive archival research and with the help of a 1929 letter from her mother's family lawyer, she managed to trace family members to their current residences. She hired a private detective, who found that the immediate family was dead, except for her mother's sister...
...sculpture from the '70s sounds better--or, at any rate, odder--as a conceit than it looks on the floor or the wall. It may be that the impulse to multiply the height of the letters of his written name 14 times their normal size and then trace the result in neon tubing satisfies some inner necessity for Nauman, but for anyone who isn't Nauman, it's meaningless. And you soon lose interest in the "animated" neon pieces, with their spasmodic one-two, on-off movements of violence or puppet sex. They are one-liner art, no matter what...
...Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said he and Dole would introduce a bill that combines tougher penalties for terrorist acts in the United States with thepresident's proposals. Clinton said he would create an FBI-run center fordomestic counterterrorism. He also requested far more authority for federal agents to wiretap, trace phone calls, examine phone bills and inspect other consumer records in efforts to identify terrorist cells before they commit crimes...
...truth of this statement cannot be exaggerated. We can trace its reflection back to ancient figures such as Laban and Haman, or instead contemplate more recent oppressors such as Queen Isabella of Spain, Catherine the Great of Russia and Adolf Hitler...