Word: clout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, tolerance gives right-wing extremists a degree of clout they don't deserve. If you've read most of the editorial positions produced by our campus media in the past year, you might notice that the most fervent claims of disenfranchisement and marginalization haven't come from the Radcliffe Union of Students, or from Harvard's gay, lesbian and bisexual community, or even from the various minority organizations, but from campus conservatives. Our own fixation on tolerance allows our Peninsuloid friends to demand that even their own intolerance be tolerated...
Powerful, complex, frightened -- all might fairly be applied to Streisand. She is the most popular and enduring pop singer of her generation; a filmmaker widely acknowledged to have more clout than any other woman in Hollywood; a political activist with the money to back her beliefs. Yet stories of her rampaging ego, of fights with co-stars and directors, of her obsessive perfectionism, are legion. More recently she has been knocked for being first among Hollywood's Clinton groupies. "On a clear day in Washington," a catty New York Times story put it, "you can see Barbra Streisand forever...
...Quality Merchandise label is stamped all over Germinal. Gerard Depardieu, who heads the film's huge cast, is the one French actor with worldwide heft and clout. Director Claude Berri is among France's toniest auteurs and producers. Now he and Gerard Brach have adapted Emile Zola's sprawling indictment of a novel. The result is dispiriting: a minor work on a huge canvas...
...sustained and shaded rage, earned Day-Lewis an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He probably won't win; Tom Hanks is considered a lock for his role as an AIDS sufferer in Philadelphia. But even if that happens, it will be a tribute to Day-Lewis' Hollywood clout because he was offered and declined the Hanks role -- as he did the role of Lestat, now taken by Tom Cruise, in Interview with the Vampire...
...know Huizenga well say he could swiftly become the real power. "He is lightning quick, a classic trader and a gambler," says an entertainment-industry executive. "He looks at Sumner, who is 70. He eats Biondi instantly. He comes out on top." In a sign of Huizenga's likely clout, Redstone flew to Blockbuster headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last week to confer with his new partner. Says the Viacom chairman: "I've been down here telling Wayne that the more roles he plays in this, the happier we're going to be." Adds Huizenga: "We're in the middle...