Word: defending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tolerated, the streets of Tehran are firmly in the hands of militia bands sent by Iran's conservative clerical leaders to crush the pro-democracy protest movement, while pro-Khatami student activists run for their lives. The spectacle of Khatami denouncing the students who?d launched their protest to defend his own reforms from conservative attack captures the dilemma of a man trying to change Iran?s theocracy from within. "Khatami was caught between contending forces, and had to avoid alienating any of them and show his loyalty to the system while at the same time trying to change...
...takes real chops to do this stuff," raves her director, Joe Mantello. It takes chops for Flockhart even to sit for an interview these days, since it usually means having to defend her eating habits to total strangers. (She's thin, folks.) But talking in quiet, manicured tones in her dressing room, Flockhart, 34, explained why she chose to spend her hiatus from TV work appearing in a dark off-Broadway play that will do little to boost her stock with Hollywood moguls shopping for the next Julia Roberts. "There was no [career] strategy involved," she says. "I decided back...
Miramax and the Catholic League have been brawling for months over Dogma, a film about holy men behaving badly, which will hit theaters later this year. But even as the filmmakers invoke artistic freedom to defend Dogma's edgy religious scenes, they are quietly considering whether to re-edit other scenes, including one in which a pair of pistol-packing angels, played by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, bullet-spray a board meeting at a large corporation, and another in which they have massacred a group outside a church. "There's definitely the question of Columbine to consider," says director...
...knew I needed help when I cursed in front of Donny Osmond. It was a tense moment in the interview--I asked him to defend his rock opera about Mormonism--and I panicked. It's not that I was intimidated by Osmond's fame so much as I knew he had been working out a lot for a Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat video. Plus, I didn't know if Mormons had any special powers, the way Scientologists have with lawsuits...
...another occasion, Rosen and several other students formed a human chain around the Center for International Affairs on Divinity Avenue to defend the center against students who were marching on the building to protest its involvement with...