Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Said a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry: "The Chinese government cares deeply about human rights. There are no saviors on the question of human rights. The Chinese people will save themselves." The Americans disagreed. "It's not a matter of talking about American values or Chinese values," said Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. "We're not telling China to be like America. We're talking about universal rights. And arbitrary arrests or torture. It's got nothing to do with normality. There are universal rights in the U.N. charter...
...young black amateurs, including the international hits Sarafina! and Asinamali! But it is quite a departure for Fugard, normally a believer in elite craftsmanship despite the egalitarian sentiments of his work. He has collaborated only once before, developing Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island with professional black actors Winston Ntshona and John Kani, who jointly won a 1975 Tony Award for their performances in the two shows...
...career for which he seemed headed in boyhood as Louis Eugene Walcott in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, then beginning its shift from a predominantly Jewish area to a black one. A choirboy at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, he ran relays in track and made his way to Winston-Salem Teachers College in North Carolina, which he attended for two years. But his real gift was for music. He played the violin obsessively, retreating to the bathroom with bow in hand for three to five hours at a stretch. He also sang and played guitar and, after leaving college, appeared...
...genius, stands unquestioned. He has a keen knack for dramatizing many of his favorite themes by "inverting" the common knowledge, wherein the normal--progressively through the show--becomes the abnormal and vice versa. His brilliant farce of late 60s English society leaves nothing sacred, not even the phallus of Winston Churchill...
...conference, held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, attracted about 20 mayors from cities ranging from Allentown, Pa., to Toledo, Ohio. Yesterday, the participants attended an opening seminar on "Managing Transition" led by Martha S. Wood, mayor of Winston-Salem...