Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the trial's opening statements, aspiring authors jockeyed for space on courtroom benches. Joyce Johnson, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, began work on What Lisa Knew. Free-lance writer Maury Terry launched into The Dark Side of 10th Street. Sam Erlich, a fellow free lance, undertook Lisa, Hedda, Joel. Marie Winn, author of a television critique, The Plug-In Drug, jotted notes for an untitled book...
...what began as a protest over sex-segregated dormitories ballooned into a political movement that nearly drove Charles de Gaulle from office. In Mexico, student demonstrations shortly before the opening of the Olympic Games were brutally suppressed. In Czechoslovakia during the spring, the Communist Party led by Alexander Dubcek undertook reforms that now seem a distant forerunner of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost -- efforts to humanize the socialist structure, to encourage greater individual discretion. Euphoria bloomed in the "Prague Spring," until Soviet and other Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into town in August and crushed the hope...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan. Some 16 years of research went into this absorbing account of U.S. Army Lieut. Colonel John Paul Vann, a man as high- minded and flawed as the mission he undertook in Viet...
...years ago, journalist John Fraser and photographer Eve Arnold undertook to cover a season (1986-87) with the American Ballet Theatre: the rehearsals, the tour, the filming of the Herbert Ross movie Dancers in Italy. Their achievement is that they manage to animate the dailiness of backstage life from the point of view of both the artistic management, led by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the dancers. Fraser's prose may be gushy at times, and Arnold's photos are grainy, but both beat with life and explode with candor. The arias of shop talk, the revelation of fears and jealousies...
...Plympton, a partner in Brattle Square Associates, called the theater a "gem," and said it would continue to operate. He added that the group undertook the work to "make [the theater's] operation better...