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...July parades rolled into one, a pageant of family values and up-by-the-bootstraps success stories and patriotism, with silver confetti falling from the sky like diamonds and 60,000 balloons blown up by volunteers. Delegates heard The Star-Spangled Banner sung so often by stars like Aretha Franklin and Marilyn Horne that they may actually know all the words by now. The whole thing was as Republican as a capital-gains-tax cut, threatening to become at times as maudlin as Nixon's Checkers speech and as corny as Reagan's Morning in America campaign...
...think I'm getting my money's worth now," said Aretha D. Davis...
...with is universal, but I do it the way we talk about it." Thus when Brandon's character Lydia is considering a name for her baby daughter, her friend suggests African-sounding names like Imani and Shafiq before Lydia decides to pay homage to the soul-and-gospel singer Aretha Franklin. Bentley's Herb wakes up with the universally shared problem of "morning breath" -- and the specifically black hassle of "morning hair...
...find him down-to-earth and engaging," said Aretha D. Davis '93. "This is a guy who I can place a lot of faith in. He's an underdog, and I like that...
...Aretha D. Davis '93 said Hill would have had no reason to testify had her charges been untrue...