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Reagan inhabits his moment in America with a triumphant (some might say careless or even callous) ease that is astonishing and even mysterious. It is an afternoon in early summer. The sky is a splendid blue, with great cotton clouds floating across it and the grass a vivid field of green. There are noises of celebration in the crowd. Tonight there will be fireworks...
...majority opinion in Fullilove vs. Klutznick, a 1979 case explicitly upholding the use of quotas to set aside 10% of federal contracts for minority-owned businesses under a public-works act passed by Congress. Supreme Court Expert Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute suggests that Scalia would not "cotton to" such a decision and predicts a "move to a more color-blind jurisprudence." In a 1979 article in the Washington University Law Quarterly, Scalia bluntly stated his views: "I am, in short, opposed to racial affirmative action for reasons of both principle and practicality. Sex-based affirmative action presents...
Despite its high-tech tools, ILM uses homey techniques as well. Clouds might be simulated by wads of cotton, the dirt on a remote planet by a pile of cork. The walls of the mine in Indiana Jones were made of scrunched-up aluminum foil, spray-painted to look like rocks. "We have no commitment to using the most sophisticated techniques," says Warren Franklin, ILM's general manager. "We go with what works...
...Spires, son of Arthur ("Big Boy") Spires, was located in a project called Magnolia Heights, near a cotton hamlet named Flora. White had spoken to Spires on the telephone earlier, and Spires had agreed to ride over to Jack Owens' place and make a little music, asking only that White "bring a lift- up." To that end, bourbon had been laid in, and now as Bud Spires gets into the car, he mentions that he "wouldn't mind a little something to get my nerves on the ready." So Spires settled his nerves, and so did White...
...blues would disappear someday because kids are not much interested in it and anyway, times are not as hard as they once were. Son said his first guitar was a Gene Autry model that cost $8.50, and at the time he was being paid $1 a hundredweight to pick cotton, so he had to pick 850 lbs. of cotton to pay for it. That was hard times. And when he was digging graves, he got $15 a grave, and the worst business ever was a three week period when nobody died. "Then all of a sudden they all started dying...