Word: act
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...stressing feel-good family entertainment. Everyone is watching his or her words; language has grown cumbersome, self-conscious and freighted with symbolic baggage. In such an uptight climate, cultural renegades are doing what they have always done: trying to shock, offend, liberate. Stern's gross-out radio act, like his book, is all about saying the unsayable -- at least, within the limits of what the FCC will allow a station to broadcast and still keep its license. Beavis and Butt-Head, with their geeky irresponsibility and maddening Neanderthal laugh, are adolescent ids running wild, doing everything parents tell...
...Congress, and F.W. de Klerk, President of the Republic of South Africa, bolsters both sides of this timeworn debate. De Klerk is pre- eminently an individual who has been pushed forward by the tide of events, a man of conservative bent who has been prodded by historical forces to act progressively, even boldly. It is not implausible to argue that whoever succeeded P.W. Botha as President of South Africa would have been compelled to release Nelson Mandela, dismantle the apparatus of apartheid and pave the way to the promised land of one-man, one-vote elections. For his part, Nelson...
...follow-up survey last week found the spread is 51% to 39%. While the White House frets about such slippage, promoters of competing plans see an opportunity. Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee, a conservative Democrat who has been studying health care for years, has introduced his managed competition act. Like the White House plan, Cooper's would subsidize coverage for the poor, establish a base-line benefits package and create insurance cooperatives. It would also prevent discrimination against people considered bad insurance risks. But unlike Clinton's program, Cooper's would not compel employers to provide coverage, only encourage them...
...tractor (and the keys), jump on, start it and crash through a metal door, all in five seconds. Logan, who has made tabloid headlines by being caught in bed with a spacey artist (Daryl Hannah) the night she is supposed to have killed her ex-lover, is allowed to act as one of her attorneys at the murder trial. Finally, the real murderer forces Kelly and the artist to bang noisily on a sculpture while dozens of guests attend a stately memorial service in an adjacent room. Ivan Reitman is the coarsest and canniest of directors; Meatballs, Stripes and Ghostbusters...
...Colombia's most notorious narcotics traffickers. ''Now we must convey that when you buy drugs,'' said Bush, ''you could also very well be subsidizing terrorist activities overseas.'' The armed forces have been engaged in the drug war since 1981, when Congress revised the 100-year-old posse comitatus act that prohibited the military from involvement in domestic law enforcement. With the reins loosened, the Department of Defense began providing the Drug Enforcement Administration and other organizations with radar surveillance, communications hardware and help in planning raids on traffickers. What, then, makes the new directive significant? ''The greatest impact...