Word: wildernesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Giant is one of a new class of faster, higher and wilder roller coasters roaring onto the amusement-park scene this summer. Far more terrifying than rides of old, the megacoasters, with names like Viper, Iron Wolf and Georgia Cyclone, employ computer technology, ultramodern materials and aerobatics to deliver a plexus punch to those brave enough to step aboard. Park operators are also souping up old coasters and bringing others out of mothballs in a race to produce the terrifying rides. A total of 176 coasters are running in the U.S., up from 147 in 1978 and the most since...
...DOUG WILDER Virginia's Governor is clearly enjoying trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. With his "New Mainstream" rhetoric, he's positioned to displace Jackson as the premier black politician...
...black candidate can do that, it is Gantt. He is a far cry from Helms' description of him as "Jesse Jackson's candidate." An M.I.T.-trained architect, he operates in the smooth, reserved style of such rising black politicians as Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder. A veteran of sit-ins during the 1960s, Gantt demonstrated his crossover potential in 1983, when he ran for mayor of Charlotte, a city that was 75% white. He won with 52% of the vote...
...Pulitzer, which makes Wilson one of only seven dramatists to win at least twice (the others, besides O'Neill: George S. Kaufman, Robert E. Sherwood, Thornton Wilder, Williams and Edward Albee), is for his play The Piano Lesson, which after extensive regional tryouts is opening on Broadway this week. Outwardly, it has much in common with Fences, which won Wilson the Pulitzer in 1987: it portrays a conflict among members of a black family over whether to hunker down under white racism or risk ambition and disappointment. But unlike Fences, a kitchen-sink drama firmly grounded in reality, Piano Lesson...
...nation watched intently as the abortion issue took center stage in gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia this fall. Pro-choice Virginia governor Douglas Wilder's victory over his anti-abortion opponent received almost as much attention as the fact that Wilder, the descendant of slaves, is the first Black to be elected governor since Reconstruction...