Word: connorism
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...only blacks but also unionists and anyone else who posed a threat to the established order. Rather than issue orders directly to Klan-connected thugs like Robert Chambliss, the organizer of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, the Big Mules used intermediaries like public-safety commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor. His brutal tactics produced the shocking television pictures that forced the reluctant Federal Government to intervene on the movement's behalf. As King's aide Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker once said, the battle would have been lost "if Bull had let us go down to the city hall and pray...
...both of Lucy's sisters as well. He provides the scholarly Charlotte, the youngest Owens sister, with passionate romance and allows eldest sister Alice the thoughtless affair that she craves. He even manages to help Lucy's brother David coax his stubborn girlfriend Laura into bed. Frances O'Connor's portrayal of Laura is a highpoint of the film. O'Connor (Bedazzled, Mansfield Park) recently won a Golden Globe for her performance in the television miniseries "Madame Bovary" and in Adam, she makes Laura at once intelligent and exciting. About Adam dares us to throw all of our presumptions about...
...replay of my experience," says Robert Bork, a conservative whose 1987 nomination to the court went down in an ugly partisan clash. Bush might get away with naming an unbending conservative to Rehnquist's slot. But one of the toughest tasks of Bush's presidency could be replacing O'Connor--a swing vote on a court that often rules 5 to 4 and the crucial fifth vote upholding Roe v. Wade, since pro-choice groups no longer count on Anthony Kennedy. "Any effort by Bush to appoint a far right-wing Justice to replace O'Connor could make the Ashcroft...
...thin paper trail; and Emilio Garza, a federal appellate judge in Texas who is further to the right--and volubly opposes Roe. Republicans hope that a Hispanic pick would tie Democrats in knots, although for some Senators, antiabortion views would outweigh diversity. Naming a woman in O'Connor's place would be a similar tactic. Edith Jones, another quite conservative federal judge in Texas, has been on the G.O.P. list for years. A less well-known option: Janice Brown, a California Supreme Court judge who is African American...
...record, friends say O'Connor's health is good, despite hand tremors. She made a hole-in-one while golfing on the weekend after the election decision. She's also hiring clerks for the next two terms. Still, family in Arizona and a house she and her husband built there beckon. As for Rehnquist, a widower, the dean of the University of Arizona law school denies that he's about to come on board. But people who know him think he's restless enough to leave the court if, they say, for example, he becomes romantically involved...