Word: waking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...organization, which has gained international renown especially in the wake of the Oscar-winning movie "The Official Story," also recently suffered an unfortunate split over what are popularly rumored to be irreconcilable differences between its two leaders, both in personality and, more importantly, in sense of the group's mission. The main group, led by Hebe de Bonafini, has become fiercely and broadly political; while the small splinter group of Adela Antokaletz, it is said, has preferred to adhere to the original goal of gaining information on the disappeared. Neither side will discuss the other, but it is popularly rumored...
...mothers' politicization and vowed isolation from other political groups is rooted in the events of the dirty war. They still refuse to associate with the CGT--the main labor union, which, in the wake of Peron, remains at the forefront of Argentine politics--because they say it propped up the government's reign of terror. They shun other political parties, left and right, for the same reason...
...tiptoe away from it all during his swing through the South last week. For the most part, he deflected or ignored questions hurled at him whenever he was in earshot of reporters. When given the chance, he seemed to set the stage for a shift in policy in the wake of the reaction he had provoked. When a reporter shouted a query in Columbia, S.C., about whether new sanctions were out of the question, the President stopped to answer. "We haven't closed any doors yet," he said...
...hatched a plan, which involved pretending to be working for a white volunteer who was with them, in case they got stopped by state troopers. And the time he was host at a birthday party for Bond's 16-year-old daughter. And the times he had to wake Bond up in the morning. "We used to call him God's greatest sleeper," Lewis says. Bond, for his part, remembers that the early-to-rise Lewis would fall asleep when they went to the movies, "even if it was Conan." And he remembers how they would sit around the bars...
...love has become a familiar theme of contemporary fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer made it the title of a book of short stories; John Cheever, John Updike and Saul Bellow have explored its surprising depths and passions. In their wake Philanthropist Astor, now in her early 80s, slyly subtitles her fourth and best book "a period piece." Actually, it concerns two periods: the year before the Crash and the time after middle age. She is obviously an expert on both. With witty understatement and antic plot, she shows a high social stratum at its apogee. Messages are delivered on silver salvers...