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...didn't deliver it very well. But his aides first tested the speech's broad themes with a focus group of Republican men and women in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Next they showed the tape to a "dial group'' of 30 Republicans -- some committed to Dole, some not -- in Cobb County, Georgia. Each was given a hand-held dial to register his or her approval of key passages; all voted 80% approval or more. Officials at other campaigns scoff at the front runner's overcalibration, but the careful market testing has helped Dole move away from talking about process and toward more...
...Yellow Pages Publishers Association agreed to divide listings into ``abortion providers'' and ``abortion alternatives,'' but this does not always work. ``The way the ad read, I didn't know a Christian woman would be on the other end of the phone,'' says a 40-year-old woman who called Cobb Pregnancy Services in Marietta, Georgia (which is not a Care Net facility), looking for an abortion. ``I told her I didn't call to get a lecture.'' (This woman did visit Cobb and decided to keep her baby.) According to Sebastian, there have also been at least a dozen lawsuits...
This movie on the life of baseball great Ty Cobb -- who once held 40 major league hitting and base-running records and whose lifetime batting average of .367 is still unsurpassed -- is not about baseball. It's about a venomous, wife-beating racist who saw himself as a genius. TIME movie critic Richard Schickel says some filmgoers may think this is a "messy movie, sometimes repetitive, sometimes too compressed and allusive." Still he says this is "irrelevant in comparison to the horrific fascination of his story...
Many won't be able to. They can justify their fastidiousness by observing that this is a messy movie, sometimes repetitive, sometimes too compressed and allusive. But that's like saying Ty Cobb was not a very good sport -- irrelevant in comparison to the horrific fascination of his story...
Tommy Lee Jones plays the horrifically fascinating Ty Cobb...