Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enfant terrible of the House floor, right-wing Republican Newt Gingrich, 40, of Georgia, scales the rhetorical heights by quoting Winston Churchill about the years before World War II: "The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...
Rangy, brash and big-beaked, he was the "American eagle" to an admiring Winston Churchill. Though he took part in three wars, Mark Wayne Clark won his greatest renown as the World War II soldier who led the first army in history to fight all the way up the Italian boot from toe to top. In 1943, at 46, he was the nation's youngest three-star general when he was picked by Dwight Eisenhower to organize the U.S. Fifth Army in Africa. At his death last week of cancer in Charleston, S.C., General Clark, 87, was the last...
...point. What the struggle shows is the important role that textbooks can play in the nationwide drive to restore educational excellence. The reversal comes at a time when Computer Magnate H. Ross Perot, as chairman of a committee on public education, is crusading to upgrade Texas schools. Holt, Rinehart & Winston's Robert Palmerton calls the decision "a plus for the state of Texas...
Wednesday night they performed four very different dances that which all shared one basic element an abundance of energy. Regardless of whether the dance was to the music of George Winston. Mendelssohn, Peter Gordon or Pat Metheny, one could feel the pulsing rhythm and energy of the dancers, their lithe bodies stretching and pulling and creating forces...
...night opened with a piece called "Isba" with music by George Winston ("Autumn") and choreography by Alvin Ailey. It seemed to be just a joyous celebration of colors, of people and of love. The set was a brilliant backdrop of pink, blue and green complemented by the dancers hot, brightly colored costumes. The dancers alternated from groups to solos to partners and as they proceeded through different movements they just seem to be having a better and better time. They turned, displaying their perfect techniques with their arms up, down always creating more tension. The dance itself was mainly modern...