Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back up this strong appeal to Southern voters, the Democrats also need a centrist, non-ethnic non-New Englander on the ticket. Gary Hart is the only credible candidate who fits these categories...
...intended revolution remains more than a little sketchy, as does the alliance that binds together the likes of the streetwise urchin Gavroche (Braden Danner) and the idealistic student Marius (David Bryant), the lover of the grownup Cosette (Judy Kuhn). This lack of ideology may enhance the show's appeal: it taps generalized populist sentiment without bogging down in debate...
...jury will have to decide not only the question of Monsanto's guilt but the amount of damages to be assessed. If Monsanto loses, it will almost certainly appeal, in which case an appellate judge might take the better part of a year just to read over the record. Attorney friends have told Carr, who is 60, that he may be senile before he sees a dollar of Monsanto money. "Maybe," he replies, "I was senile when I agreed to get into this fight in the first place...
...History is, after all, drama readymade, an endless pageant playing at all hours in the public domain. Writers who elect to fuse their private inventions with the collective memory of an actual past can create electrifying effects. Witness the towering achievements of War and Peace or the enduring popular appeal of Gone With the Wind. The formula has its pitfalls, of course, in the hands of the inept: cardboard people posing stiffly in front of papier-mache reconstructions. Even so, fiction that dovetails with fact remains alluring to authors and readers alike...
Though civil libertarians had expected to lose in Hand's court, they were still stunned by the breadth of the ruling. Despite the likelihood of a reversal on appeal, Hand's decision "gives Fundamentalists a two-year supply of matches to remove what they disagree with," charges Anthony Podesta, president of People for the American Way, the liberal lobbying group that helped secure legal counsel for a group of parents who opposed the challenge to the books. "The judge has stood the First Amendment on its head...