Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moll Flanders, perhaps? "During this call...the President told Lewinsky that she reminded him of a character, but Lewinsky could not recall any further description, other than the character had something to do with London." --OIC interview...
...past decade Winfrey's obsession has been to share such feelings with all of America--to recast the discussion of slavery, presenting it not merely as a brutal, exploitative era in our history but as a kind of roll call of individual tragedy in which, as chattel, "you died with no salvation and no honor in your spirit." She argues that painting slavery with a broad brush in literature, film and even political debate has kept us from knowing the real horror and heroism of the institution. "We got it all wrong," she says. "For years we've talked about...
...CASTING CALL...
...Starr Method, invented and deployed in Washington, has made its way to the states. Call it the Starr Devolution. In South Carolina this week, allies of Jim Hodges, the Democrat running against G.O.P. Governor David Beasley, plan to ask Beasley about--you guessed it--infidelity. In a political twist that surely has both parties' elders shuddering, the Democrats will attempt to depose Beasley on Thursday at a law office just a few blocks from the Governor's office. A Democratic Party lawyer, Cameron Lewis, tells TIME he has no intention of subjecting Beasley to the kind of detailed grand jury...
...they almost were. One problem remained: the two had agreed at the outset that if they couldn't find the right person to play Felicity, they would call the project off. They auditioned nearly 100 actors in New York City and Los Angeles without any luck, until along came Russell, who had previously appeared most prominently in Malibu Shores, an Aaron Spelling drama that ran on NBC during the 1996 season. Russell says she was nervous at the audition, seeing more than a dozen actors go in before her, and she remembers calling her agent to complain...