Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ribbon at the American Film Festival, Primary won Kennedy’s approval, and he invited cinéma vérité directly into the Oval Office. The result was the 1963 film, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, which documented the federal government’s standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace over educational integration. Few films since have chronicled presidential power with such immediacy—an immediacy too acute for the tastes of the New York Times editorial page, which lambasted Kennedy for making a mockery of the governing process...
...Columbia grad, he enjoys Ivy League football despite the Lions’ traditional futility. A Birmingham, Ala. native, he has rooted for the Alabama Crimson Tide his entire life...
...Heart Guy, for example, needs a heart transplant and loses his place on the waiting list any time he travels more than two hours away from Nashville—which is a problem, since he intentionally leaves that area for each Alabama football game...
...Alabama fans, as is common, often create a complex justification for their loyalty. Tide priders accuse class and tradition—’Bama has 12 national titles—for triggering their obsession, when in fact most sports allegiances are tied to family and friends...
...case, what would Tide fans do if Alabama put restrictions on tailgating...