Word: credos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of an ongoing investigation of Microsoft's Internet strategy. The latest complaint: when Windows 95 users try to connect to the Net, Microsoft's software wipes out the Internet settings of its rivals. Company executives offer no apologies. In a statement that could serve as their chairman's credo, they insist that the problem is caused not by any flaws in Microsoft's software, but by the weakness of its competitors...
Inside every gay man, the drag queen's fantasy credo goes, there's a beautiful woman just dying to accessorize. Take Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze), the regal doyenne in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar. Vida is a Victoria among drag queens; she could be the perfect ad for sisterhood out of a 1947 Good Housekeeping. And Swayze, maintaining equipoise between camp and bathos, is every inch a lady...
...scripter Douglas Carter Beane want you to believe that the drag queen, because he is at ease with his ersatz sexuality, is a true liberator: he can teach feminism to women and manners to men, in this awful place called Middle America. The movie has its own fantasy credo: that heterosexuals are the real objects of pity and scorn. And gay men? Poor them! In Hollywood films, they are either invisible or tortured--unless they dress for success...
...Manuel Puig, author of the play Under a Mantle of Stars, chose not to live this credo...
Burke's enemies, however, see her as Dole's bad angel, the woman who urges on his predisposition to compromise. Not for Dole is Margaret Thatcher's credo that consensus is the negation of leadership. And not for Burke. Beyond that, some are even casting her as a Beltway Lady Macbeth-the wily, power-hungry woman who works her (secretly liberal) will through a feckless politician...