Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson faced the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in the last game of the 1947 season. Fearing racial violence, Virginia officials attempted to prevent Harvard's Black tackle, Chester M. Pierce '48, from taking part in the game...
Matewan (rhymes with great one) proves, as Return of the Secaucus 7 and The Brother from Another Planet did earlier, that John Sayles knows how to anchor a strong story -- here, the real-life massacre that led to the West Virginia mine wars -- in a fresh setting. He also knows how to make good-looking movies on the cheap. This period film, with a huge cast, cost only about $4 million, a budget that was met under the supposed financial restrictions of a full union crew. And in the rich umbers of Haskell Wexler's cinematography, Matewan does look great...
When Nunn told reporters the "window and the door are closed" for him, he noted there was still an opening for another entry. Former Virginia Governor Chuck Robb was afraid Nunn would name him as a replacement. "If you do," Robb jokingly warned Nunn on the phone, "our long friendship is over." Nunn did, and also mentioned New York Governor Mario Cuomo and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley...
...Americans because of fears that they feed racial stereotyping. Many can remember when Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants were the victims of undisguised public ostracism and discriminatory laws. Indeed, it was not until 1952 that legislation giving all Asian immigrants the right to citizenship was enacted. "Years ago," complains Virginia Kee, a high school teacher in New York's Chinatown, "they used to think you were Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan. ; Then they thought you must own a laundry or restaurant. Now they think all we know how to do is sit in front of a computer." Says Thomas...
...chef will be in command of the White House kitchen. He is Jon Hill, 33, of Spokane, who is considered a master of ice and tallow sculpture, and has cooked mostly in kitchens of the Westin hotel chain since he graduated from the Greenbrier Culinary Apprenticeship Program in West Virginia. For the past year, he has been executive chef at the Westin Cypress Creek, in Fort Lauderdale. White House sources say that Hill's appointment is by no means assured, but he has already been approved by Nancy Reagan. If he is officially named, Hill will replace Swiss-born Henry...