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Although the Connecticut native usually prefers culture to politics, he's tried his hand at both. In 1976, he jumped on the presidential bandwagon and joined the Carter press office, but even at the time he wasn't really very interested in politics. "I always thought that presidential campaigns were great theater," he explains...
...federal government may be hell-bent on preventing people under 21 from consuming alcohol, but Harvard isn't jumping on the bandwagon. College administrators say they designed the alcohol policy because they had to bring Harvard into compliance with the law, not because they had an overwhelming desire to cut down on undergraduate drinking. And officials call the policy a success, despite the fact that the campus is not notably drier...
...Avildsen's quest for the midline of American moviemaking keeps him from joining Stallone's exploitational bandwagon. He didn't want to take part in Rocky II, he said, because "I thought the script was really lame." Avildsen had hoped to make a Rocky trilogy: In the path not taken, Rocky would have become the populist mayor of Philadelphia in II and get tossed out because of a corruption scandal in III, ending up back in the ring where he started. Stallone decided Philadelphia City Hall was small-time; the Rocky-Rambo-Cobra hybrid which has terrorized movie screens near...
Ideology, Reynolds thus implies, is the proper--in fact the only--standard by which justices should be evaluated. By refusing to abandon more than 20 years of consistent judicial reasoning and a rights-based approach to the Constitution in order to jump on the Reagan bandwagon, Brennan utterly fails to meet the Reynold's test of judicial competence. If Brennan is a dangerous judge because of his generally liberal opinions, then only a committed conservative can save the country and the honorable Court...
...movies and made Rambo into a pop icon. But it is also the result of savvy marketing by the comic industry's Big Three, which have pushed their product aggressively at specialty shops, supermarket check- out counters and bookstores. Dozens of other companies have climbed on the comic-book bandwagon, emblazoning characters on lunch boxes, beach towels and posters...