Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual to see a Kurdish woman dressed in an elaborately embroidered homespun costume going about her chores with a child on one hip and a Kalashnikov rifle on the other. "We've got the will to fight," says one woman, patting her weapon affectionately, "and the means." The men are walking arsenals, with guns and cartridge belts at their hips and hand grenades dangling in leather pouches at their sides. Tucked away in the hills and valleys is heavier equipment, including machine guns, antitank weapons and artillery...
...increased income during election year 1980-to the nation's farm lands. Over the next 14 months, the U.S. will sell the Soviets 10 million metric tons of wheat and another 10 million metric tons of corn; the wheat alone is enough to provide every Soviet man, woman and child with almost 100 1-lb. loaves...
Also regarded by critics as a sin of omission is the new book's loss of burial service readings such as "Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay...
...Times's first substantial piece on "Hollywoodgate" was a condensed version of a Washington Post story. Minorities complain that Chandler cares more about covering Mexico than Hispanic East Los Angeles. In January for instance, the Times virtually ignored a story about the death of Eula Love, a black woman shot eight times by two policemen. More than three months later after Esquire mentioned the Times's omission, the paper printed a front-page story about the shooting. (The Times did run a piece by David Shaw last month confessing the Begelman and Love failures.) "I would be willing...
Like Shields, who is a friendly acquaintance, Tatum feels most comfortable on a movie set. "You know everybody; it's like a family." She travels with Diane Lewis, a woman in her early 30s who has been her companion since she was small, and a friend called Esme, who is also her standin. Her only complaint about moviemaking is that in California?though not in England, where she filmed International Velvet?the law requires that child actors go to school for at least four hours a day. "On Little Darlings, the picture I just finished, we got in about three...