Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week's mini-series Fresno and has just finished a tour promoting her memoir, intends to start work with Hamilton next year on a book tentatively titled Under One Roof. It will be about their experiences while Hamilton was working to overcome her drug addiction, and they will write alternating chapters. The book "will be an account of a scared mother and a scared kid who went through this separately and came out on the other side," says Burnett, 53. Hamilton, 22, who is a cast member of the TV series Fame, adds impishly, "It's going...
...Government they understood as a necessity, but as a product of human intentions...When Americans thought of rights or the consent of the governed, therefore, they had in mind the actualities of their own experience," the Handlins write...
Enters a new word--EXPLORE, find out, uncover what had been hidden. The languages receive it; people speak and write it in awareness that out there in space promises lie concealed; and in that consciousness the thought glimmers of alternatives to the narrow, known, closed world. In choice, hope lies...
Liberty and Power seems to be torn by two impulses. On the one hand, Oscar Handlin, who retired last year, may have felt compelled to write it as the definitive version of his view of the main themes in American history. But on the other hand, as the rather overblown subtitle suggests, this book may have been meant for the bookshelves of Mr. and Mrs. Middle America. As the latter, it may succeed. But as the former, it would never have won Handlin tenure...
...beginning was Gentleman's Agreement, in which Nice Goy Gregory Peck pretended to be Jewish, the better to write an earnest indictment of anti- Semitism for a magazine. Now, almost 40 years later, comes Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell), overdosing on tanning pills and learning what it feels like to be black. But Mark is no gentleman: short of funds, he is out to obtain a scholarship to Harvard Law School intended for a black student. And the only agreement the filmmakers have reached is to aim for safe mediocrity...