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Although Zeta-Jones has been getting a lot of attention???not all of it positive?for her whopping contracts with T-Mobile and Elizabeth Arden, Arden's top brass insists she's worth every penny. And if exposure and a paycheck are what Zeta-Jones is after, then she may be better off in an Arden ad than in The Legend of Zorro...
...fear of holocaust has taken root in the U.S., as exemplified in the numerous initiatives of the nuclear-freeze movement. It is as though the spotlight of public attention???and public anxiety?had finally focused on "the football," illuminating that curious, innocuous-looking fixture of the President's entourage. More intensely and skeptically than before, people are wondering about that briefcase, not so much what it contains as what it represents. Under what circumstances would the President actually call for it to be unlocked? And what would happen if the codes inside were actually unsealed and transmitted? And what then...
...precisely the wrong moment for Roots. Says Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan: "Everything converged?the right time, the right story and the right form. The country, I feel, was ready for it. At some other time I don't feel it would have had that kind of widespread acceptance and attention???specifically in the '60s. Then it might have spawned resentments and apprehensions the country couldn't have taken. But with things quiet, and with race relations moving along at a rate that's acceptable to most Americans, we were ready to take in the full story...
...doors 20 minutes after the bell rang, refusing admittance to those who showed up any later. Gradually, the interval between bell and door closing was shortened to only five minutes, and most patients were arriving promptly. "You shift from one kind of reinforcement?annoying the guards and getting attention???to another, eating when you're hungry," says Skinner. To charges that this kind of conditioning is sadism, he replies that "the patients are going in quickly because they want to." That is strange logic; he seems to ignore the fact that the patients are compelled to "want to" unless they...
...communities and black political and economic power, are gaining strength. At the same time, more blacks are becoming radicalized. Though still a minority, those who lean toward the Panther concept of waging a class struggle, sometimes in alliance with white revolutionaries, to overthrow the present capitalistic system are gaining attention???much...