Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WARREN ZEVON: TRANSVERSE CITY (Virgin). The nastiest and least predictable of the California singer-songwriters opens hard with a dour, futuristic suite of three tunes inspired by cyberpunk sci-fi, then draws his usual fine satiric bead on a range of subjects from perestroika to malling...
Many feminists believe men will resist these changes. "It means more competition at work and more housework at home," says Patricia Ireland of NOW. Others argue that men will see benefits for themselves. "It's women's demands that are making the workplace more livable," says Warren Farrell, a self-proclaimed "male feminist" and author of Why Men Are the Way They Are. "Companies did not have to be flexible in the past because men were their slaves...
Repairs affected the house's F and G Towers, as well as its library, as engineers fixed steam valves in the tower basements, said Superintendent P. Warren Nugent...
...VICTOR VOCAL SERIES. Maybe they weren't better in the old days, but these digitally remastered recordings make a strong case that the jet plane and overbooked schedules are enemies of vocal grace. The first issues in this new project include Marian Anderson, Leonard Warren, Rosa Ponselle, Tito Schipa and Jussi Bjoerling. The Warren disk is an oddity, recorded live on a 1958 tour of the Soviet Union, where the baritone's dark, sexy voice knocked 'em dead. Ponselle's sublime vocal poise lights great Verdi arias and ditties like When I Have Sung My Songs...
With a sure sense of West Coast history, Morris shows how Nixon's early career grew naturally from a raw strivers' culture. Just as Nixon fought hereditary barons in campus politics, he later bucked the genteel Republicanism of Earl Warren. Morris demolishes the stereotype of Nixon as disembodied political gypsy. Nixon had roots in the same soil that produced the sagebrush rebellion. Morris also reconstructs the network of Nixon's early financial backers, including some of the millionaires who would later sponsor Reagan. After only six years in Congress, Nixon connected with a national following. Ultimately, it would unseat...