Word: bond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once they were brothers in arms, but that was in another time and another place, back when Julian Bond and John Lewis were in Selma together for the march to Montgomery, back when they drove the rural roads of the South together, registering voters in towns like Waterproof, La., and Belzoni, Miss. Now, though their paths cross almost every day, the two men barely speak. It has been that way since they sat down for lunch last autumn at a Marriott Hotel in Atlanta. "Well, Mr. Senator, what are you going to do?" Lewis asked his friend, the state senator...
...transcends such things. It is about friendships and loyalties, history and change. It is about the ambitions of two men with very different backgrounds and styles who had -- and still have -- an important vision in common. It is about the coming of age of a movement, one that Bond and Lewis helped found 25 years ago, which sought for blacks the right to participate fully in the political process...
...Bond, who still has the boyish smile and laid-back cool that made him a celebrity in the '60s, is the glamour candidate. He is the clear favorite of the upwardly mobile young blacks, known as buppies, whose BMWs decorate the lot of his sprawling campaign headquarters. Cicely Tyson came down for a fund raiser, and so did the Temptations; Bill Cosby and Ted Kennedy have sent checks. Polished and witty, Bond has an air of bemused nonchalance; like a horse who shies from hurdles, he has backed away from seeking higher office or tougher challenges in the past...
...proceeds through the fact that in both The Terminator and Aliens, evil is symbolized by nonhuman characters; it continues with the demonstration, in both pictures, that "it's more interesting to see a normal person in abnormal circumstances than a highly trained person like Superman or James Bond." People who try to act like superheroes in Aliens all end up dead because, finally, "the movie is about finding personal resources: will, courage, whatever." Or, as Weaver puts it, "I like to think the real message is love...
...kind of strange when I got my room keys and they said Yale on them," the history major joked. But Walton also recalled more serious aspects ofhis freshman year such as learning how to studyselectively and the "unbreakable bond" that formsbetween you and your freshman year roommates...