Word: creed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal lives. Both the latter movies, unlike Front Page, argue that the press does matter; the first for the good it can do, the second for the harm. What caused the change in attitude? In his valedictory speech last year as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Creed Black, publisher of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, lamented: "We are blamed for the sins and shortcomings of what television, which is basically an entertainment medium, calls news...
...political satire, knowing evocations of comics past and bold reworkings of current graphic formats into a dysutopian mystery story. It is as engagingly knotty and self-referential as The Name of the Rose, but instead of monks doubting their faith, here are superheroes weighed down by their creed, caught in a world they never made but that is remaking them, and showing no mercy. Watchmen has been attracting some heavy Hollywood attention. But a book of this scope can only be scaled down and confined on a screen, no matter how lavishly it is adapted. Graphic novels are cinema...
Gephardt's career in Washington is a testament to his creed that "good policy is good politics." It began slowly. After the Congressman won a second term, his staff convened at his suburban Washington home for what they presumed would be a victory party. They discovered instead that Gephardt had called the session to lament the lack of new laws with his name on them, an astonishing attitude for someone who had spent only two years in the House. Eventually he focused on two issues: the Bradley-Gephardt tax-reform bill and the Gephardt trade amendment. In each instance, Gephardt...
...bill, which would protect gays in the areas of employment, housing and public accomodations, is modeled after state laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religious creed, sex, age and national origin or ancestry...
...Edgar C. Thompson, owner of The Llama Shop, a sweater store, "The Oktoberfest is an international festivity for every color, creed, and race." Close by the lederhosen and sauerbrauten in Harvard Square were Mexican, Indian, and Italian booths selling jewelry, food and clothing, native to their countries...